As I retire to bed with an almost post-coital smile on my face, I am compelled to retract earlier sentiments that African politics is “The Greatest Show on Earth.” Obviously, that honor belongs squarely to American politics. Gore gets Florida. Gore loses Florida. Gore concedes. Gore recants. Tim Russert’s doing some crazy shit on a dry erase board and Brokaw’s throwing up his hands at the whole damned thing. Meanwhile, Jonathan Alter’s predicting revolution, anarchy, and the streets running red with blood. The sun rises on a republic of 250 million that may have chosen its next president by a four-digit margin.
I’m still waiting for the grand finale of the show. My prediction: The Florida recount ends up with Bush winning by three votes, unfortunately a car with 4 senior citizens was on the way to vote, when they ran over one of Elian Gonzales toys, and had a blowout, stopping them from making the deadline. Bush takes the Oath of Office, then turns around to the crowd, rips off a mask, and reveals that he is actually … Richard Nixon, only pretending to be dead the last few years.
Hehe I just have to laugh my ass when I think of all the other other countries we talked into having a Democratic process, I can’t believe they fell for it.
Reminds me of something I heard the other day. (And I know it’s an exaggeration, but still…)
You hear about elections in other countries and you see them on the news and you often see footage of these heavily armed guards watching the polling sites. Who works the polls in the US? Little old lady volunteers.
Make that crabby little old lady volunteers! Sheesh, ladies, no one is making you do this - you can quit, you know.
Anyone else run into a bunch of crabby ol’ farts?
My husband, whose handwriting is notoriously bad, had one lady say to him/at him when he handed her his card he filled out, “I can’t believe the writing of some people.” :eek: Did she really say that? Does getting old mean you get to be rude?!
LOL! Just throw in Elian and it gets even more dramatic.
I can’t believe the drama of all this. At work today, I watched the news on the TV in my department (I’m supposed to play a tape about IKEA bedding, but whatever) and within two minutes of watching the coverage, about thirty customers were lined up and staring dumbfounded at the TV. Bush may win the presidency by 1700 votes??!!?? Shocking. Horrifying. Hell, it might even be better than Les Mis.
I wanted to beat him over the head with that dry erase board. I watched until 3 am, I had to be up 8, and by that time I was really pissed. They kept promising results by 2 am!
Personally, I think they will make all those residents re-vote. That’ll give us another week or so of pre-empted shows and drama rivaling that of Monicagate.