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Well, I felt not so bad about the business yesterday, attempted a Gallic shrug, thought it would all be managable and maybe, with the election over, people could actually start talking about good and better policy options and some underexamined geopolitcal situations.
Today, I have felt slightly nauseated.
Monkeycommando's predicto rule of thumb: US Presidential elections follow the same pattern as Malvern Collegiate Institute student council elections: the more entertaining candidate will always win, and a president who had diverting escapades during his first term will be re-elected.
Carter and HW Bush were boring, but they were up against, who? Ford and Dukakis?
So in the event of two boring candidates--guaranteeing a boring president--the winner will get only one term.
Reagan? Entertaining, in either a cowboy or horrorshow kind of way.
Clinton? Entertaining, either in the Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, the romantic adventures of a lovable con artist genres.
Dole? Mondale? Gore? Kerry? Borrrrringgggg!!!
W Bush. Entertaining as hell, either as fish out of water comedy, Dr. Strangelove remake, or High Noon knock-off.
You can bet that 51% of Americans are gobbling popcorn as they dig the High Noon narrative, and all other arguments are commentary.
In other news, political discussion is hitting new lows on message boards across the continent as I type, but I have found that listening to genuine nutbars--such as the guests on the radio programme Coast to Coast AM--is the ideal tonic in these trying times.
As I listened to this guy describe the Skull-and-Bones related, Illuminati sponsored, Moloch-worshipping Germanic death cult which meets at Bohemian grove to engineer the 2008 presidential face-off between Hilary Clinton and Arnold Schwarzenneger*, I was almost purring.
*Seriously, that was exactly the topic.
Today, I have felt slightly nauseated.
Monkeycommando's predicto rule of thumb: US Presidential elections follow the same pattern as Malvern Collegiate Institute student council elections: the more entertaining candidate will always win, and a president who had diverting escapades during his first term will be re-elected.
Carter and HW Bush were boring, but they were up against, who? Ford and Dukakis?
So in the event of two boring candidates--guaranteeing a boring president--the winner will get only one term.
Reagan? Entertaining, in either a cowboy or horrorshow kind of way.
Clinton? Entertaining, either in the Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, the romantic adventures of a lovable con artist genres.
Dole? Mondale? Gore? Kerry? Borrrrringgggg!!!
W Bush. Entertaining as hell, either as fish out of water comedy, Dr. Strangelove remake, or High Noon knock-off.
You can bet that 51% of Americans are gobbling popcorn as they dig the High Noon narrative, and all other arguments are commentary.
In other news, political discussion is hitting new lows on message boards across the continent as I type, but I have found that listening to genuine nutbars--such as the guests on the radio programme Coast to Coast AM--is the ideal tonic in these trying times.
As I listened to this guy describe the Skull-and-Bones related, Illuminati sponsored, Moloch-worshipping Germanic death cult which meets at Bohemian grove to engineer the 2008 presidential face-off between Hilary Clinton and Arnold Schwarzenneger*, I was almost purring.
*Seriously, that was exactly the topic.