2-HeadedGiraffe: Wow...

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Okay, America, I'm pleasantly surprised. I said a while ago that I would be pleasantly surprised if America elected a minority president, so now they did, I am.

Mood: Happy
Music: Jonathan Coulton - The Presidents
Etc.: Maine Lobster


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2-HeadedGiraffe: Prediction

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Okay, standard sarcasm warning that I shouldn't but unfortunately do need to put on any post I intend as a joke, which is most of mine (at least the political ones).

Here's my prediction: John McCain wins the election, gets very excited about said victory, suffers a freak heart attack and dies, becoming the first president elect to die before taking office.

Short of that, I think if he tries hard enough, he can still beat William Henry Harrison's record for shortest presidency. All it'll take is a bit of effort and commitment on his part.



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2-HeadedGiraffe: Politics and Comics

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Today's Get Fuzzy has it right: Michael Palin would have been a much better choice than Sarah Palin.

Mood: Neutral
Lights: Off
Tissue Box: Floral Design


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2-HeadedGiraffe: A New Challenger Emerges

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I saw this on the news today and just had to share. This is in response to an ad McCain is running which features Paris Hilton at the beginning, in which McCain compares Barack Obama to her and other such celebrities.



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Music: Birdsong from outside
Color of sock I plan to wear today: Black


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2-HeadedGiraffe: McCain

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The McCain campaign is making a big deal about John McCain having been taken prisoner and tortured during the war, and particularly about how he refused to leave when offered release until his coworkers were also released. What does this really tell us about the man?

1) He's wasn't particularly good at his job. I mean, come on. He got himself captured.

2) He values loyalty over self-preservation. Rather than getting out, where he might conceivably even have been able to do some good for the other captives, or the cause in which we can only assume he believed, he stayed with them and accomplished nothing.

Yeah, this is the best story you can use to pump up this guy's image. Actually, though, since the average American won't realize this is an example of his incompetence, it potentially WILL do a great deal to help him, which is just appalling. We didn't even belong in that war in the first place.

Mood: RAGE!
Socks: None
2-HeadedGiraffe: SMASH!


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