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I WANT AL SHARPTON IN THE WHITE HOUSE. I spent part of the day (the part not sleeping, so essentially "spent the day") looking up quotations. The best ones were Mark Twain, and the best Twains were:
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
and
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kind and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
I also removed my Hillary sticker from my bumper (I'm mad at Hillary-she made every mistake in the Big Book of Democrat Mistakes) and proudly replaced it with my Nader/Gonzalez sticker. I have spent much of the last two days trying to convince my mother to vote for Nader (if he gets on the ballot in California), because she dislikes Senator Smarmy just as much as I do, and we can only talk about it to each other because otherwise we sound racist. I would like nothing more than to see a black man-or a black woman!*-in the White House, but NOT Barack Obama. Why not someone with some experience, who hasn't just been groomed by the DNC for the last four years? Anyway, I digress. My mom is almost there. She keeps saying she liked Ralph in the 70s or thereabouts, but he's just become too crazy. I tell her he's stayed just the same, and the world's become crazier. Then I remind her that I would probably not be alive but for Mr Nader's safe cars. The point is, I drive the only Ford Taurus within about a hundred miles with a Nader sticker and a Zildjian sticker, and even though I don't look like a punk anymore, I dare any high schooler to come up with a better record collection.
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*NOT Oprah-maybe Phylicia Rashad?