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rigger wrote:
On Nov 30, 1:25 pm, Sue wrote:
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:39:19 -0500, Cliff wrote:
http://www.miamiherald.com/living/co...y/story/756596....
"In analyzing the results of Tuesday's historic election, the question we must
ask ourselves, first and foremost, is: what the heck were the results of
Tuesday's historic election?"
[
• Barack Obama is our next president, which is very bad because he is a naive
untested wealth-spreading terrorist-befriending ultraliberal socialist communist
who will suddenly reveal his secret Muslim identity by riding to his
inauguration on a camel shouting ''Death to Israel!'' (I mean Obama will be
shouting this, not the camel) after which he will wreck the economy by sending
Joe the Plumber to Guantánamo and taxing away all the income of anybody who
makes over $137.50 per year and giving it to bloated government agencies that
will deliberately set it on fire.
• Or, John McCain is our next president, which is very bad because he is a
287-year-old out-of-touch multiple-house-owning fascist who will rape the
environment and build nuclear power plants inside elementary schools and
reinstate slavery and create tax loopholes that benefit only people who own
three or more personal helicopters, after which he will declare war on the
entire United Nations and then keel over dead and leave us with
commander-in-chief Sarah ''Flash Card'' Palin.
• Or, Ralph Nader is our next president, which is very bad because it means
there has been a successful Klingon invasion.
]
I followed your link and read the whole thing (apparently written by
Mr Barry on 11/4). Thanks for posting this. Too funny and too true.
This part was especially good:

"You know what I miss? I miss 1960. Not the part about my face turning
overnight into the world's most productive zit farm. What I miss is
the way the grown-ups acted about the Kennedy-Nixon race. Like the
McCain-Obama race, that was a big historic deal that aroused strong
feelings in the voters. This included my parents and their friends,
who were fairly evenly divided, and very passionate. They'd have these
major honking arguments at their cocktail parties. But unlike today,
when people wear out their upper lips sneering at those who disagree
with them, the 1960s grown-ups of my memory, whoever they voted for,
continued to respect each other and remain good friends.

What was their secret? Gin. On any given Saturday night they consumed
enough martinis to fuel an assault helicopter. But also they were
capable of understanding a concept that we seem to have lost, which is
that people who disagree with you politically are not necessarily evil
or stupid. My parents and their friends took it for granted that most
people were fundamentally decent and wanted the best for the country.
So they argued by sincerely (if loudly) trying to persuade each other.
They did not argue by calling each other names, which is pointless and
childish, and which constitutes I would estimate 97 percent of what
passes for political debate today.

What I'm saying is: we, as a nation, need to drink more martinis.

No, you know what I'm saying. I'm saying, now that this election is
over, whatever the hell happened, can we please grow up and stop being
so nasty to each other? Please?

OK, I didn't think so.

Please pass the pitcher."

Sue- Hide quoted text -

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"Please pass the pitcher."

I know you're right but my old liver just can't keep up.

Could you recommend a substitute?

A little cannabis works even better ......IIRC

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