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"I was reading an article which reckons he has the potential to become a Black Hitler!"
Well, it's about time we had a black Hitler.
(What? Too soon?)
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Sample comment: "I was reading an article which reckons he has the potential to become a Black Hitler!"
Only if he goes to the same costume hire place as Prince Harry.
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It's hardly surprising it might drop a bit the following day. Honestly James, try reality. You might find it a pleasant change.
Amen. I hope the next few weeks are not spent watching the market vote on every utterance Obama makes. Markets are in a phase of highly unpredictable volatility, so tying anything they do to particular events is nuts. It's like standing at the water's edge at Piha during a storm and trying to tie every surge to ocean sentiments. Obama is hopefully a contrary wind, that may take the storm away, but don't expect hearing about it to stop this nasty wave smashing you to pieces.
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The Wishart gang are taking it badly.
Goodness, the Rapture is coming.
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Re Schadenfreude, I know it's hard to resist, but it's actually better to just forget about the creeps now. Let them fester in their own cesspit of bitter self-recriminations or denial.
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t's like standing at the water's edge at Piha during a storm and trying to tie every surge to ocean sentiments.
That sentimental ocean.
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Also we may be feeling a whole lot less jubilant on Saturday.
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If I was certain Obama, Pelosi Reid et al would govern like Clinton from 94 to 2000, or Clark or Rudd, or Blair or Brown, in NZ, Aussie or the UK, I would be quite relaxed, but we just don’t know.
Translation: Having finally realised that the future may not precisely mirror the past, I'm a little twitchy about tomorrow.
James - give it a rest. The whole ponderous-musings-of-a-bumpkin-abroad schtick was never really all that cute. It's the little down-homey Rushisms like hairy armpit brigade and Obambi that make you so special
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Also we may be feeling a whole lot less jubilant on Saturday.
Lalalalalalala I can't hear you.
Craig gets to be jubilant twice! Damn your eyes, Ranapia!
Tiso: The Predictatron! Good work sir.
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Minnesota was ludicrously close. No-one's projecting a winner, but with 100% of votes in, Coleman is ahead of Franken by fewer than 500 votes.
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Also we may be feeling a whole lot less jubilant on Saturday.
'Though, with any luck, you won't have to wait in a line for 6 hours to cast your vote.
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And the Pacific isn't what it's cracked up to be
Crap, so now I'm going to have Let's Face the Music and Dance in my head all day.
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Tiso: The Predictatron! Good work sir.
Well thank you ma'm. Can't tell you how much easier it is to attend to daily tasks now that I've regained the use of both hands.
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James,lets see if McCain now goes back to the Senate and works across the table with the Democrats, backs up his statement that he will work across party lines.I really hope so because the republicans sure need a new vision and direction.
Meanwhile back at the Whitehouse President Bush is still probably rushing through executive orders President Obama and his team (which he has surely decided as coolly as he planned everything else) will have to take months undoing.
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'Though, with any luck, you won't have to wait in a line for 6 hours to cast your vote.
This is what I keep thinking about. I'll go to vote, on a not-work-day, and be able to just walk straight into the booth and vote. I know I'll be on the roll. The whole thing will take five minutes. And when they've got my vote, know what they'll do with it? Count it.
Who's the world's greatest democracy now, hmm?
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Re Schadenfreude, I know it's hard to resist, but it's actually better to just forget about the creeps now. Let them fester in their own cesspit of bitter self-recriminations or denial.
Probably best to keep one eye on them (and let them know that you are doing so). Left to their own devices they can come up with some really silly ideas about doing nasty things to certain people. Responsible vigilance should not be trumped by over-indifferent magnanimity.
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Crap, so now I'm going to have Let's Face the Music and Dance in my head all day.
Try this one instead
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A funky celebration:
Funky 16 Corners before the election
Funky 16 Corners after the election
(And I can't resist stealing his chosen clip)
here if the embedding ain't workin'for ya.
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Responsible vigilance should not be trumped by over-indifferent magnanimity.
LOL feel free to watch them then. But I doubt they can or will say anything they haven't said a hundred times already. The number of keyboard warriors who have called for an armed uprising in NZ grows daily, and none is as credible as our already discredited 'terrorist plot'. In the US it's highly credible but they already take huge precautions. Indeed, thanks largely to Bush, finding people who are planning political crimes has never been easier. The irony of that will not be lost on them, I'm sure.
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I think we all know what this election result means for us...
from now until Saturday, John Key will be campaigning in Minstrel costume.
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Craig gets to be jubilant twice! Damn your eyes, Ranapia!
My Public Address Radio piece this week is rather melancholy traverse of bitter-sweet ObamaConism, and a suggestion that the GOP should shit-can Palin and meditate on a few lines of Kiping instead.
If all the planets line up on Saturday, my Giuchie, Giuchie, ya ya will be on with more gay abandon. Not too much, though, because that would be vulgar, and we're going to see Britten's Peter Grimes the next morning. Election, British opera, hide in a dark room for a week.
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Here's hoping Obama turns out to be a Muslim atheist communist, and not a decidedly conservative liberal. Then woohoo America will get a shake up.
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Who's the world's greatest democracy now, hmm?
Well Emma, point taken, but today, actually, I think perhaps it's the USA again. If any of the speeches after our election on Saturday make me feel anything like this one does, I'd agree unreservedly...
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Wouldn't the world be a better place if he's beating Dubya in 2000?
I think the world would be a better place if just about anyone had beat Dubya in 2000. Gore, McCain, a monkey...
My bet is that he'll go two terms, and even then, if the Dems lose it will be because they can't find a half-way good successor.
The successor will be interesting. Biden is 66 now, 74 in eight years. He probably won't stand. Which means either a different VP candidate in 4 years, or a person not from the 2012 ticket standing.
And then he beat the best Rep candidate since pre-Nixon days.
One suspects Ronald Reagan might be rated as a better candidate, depending on your criteria.
I think the Repubs are toast, as a single party. I heard one guy, I think on BBC, say that Obama had "broken the Republican coalition" and I think that is indeed what has happened.
Meh. This is relatively minor, compared to say, Watergate. Bush will be shoved out the door ungraciously and the party will move on in its muddling way. 8 years from now they'll be a strong, morals, christian base party again. Too many people that want that in America for it not to work. It'd be nice to say that the whacko fundies would dwindle off into not much, but that's a big part of the electorate in America.
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