# They are both bumbling bafoons **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 12, 2000, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-both-bumbling-bafoons/36627 "2000-10-12T02:34:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-both-bumbling-bafoons/36627/1 "2000-10-12T02:34:15Z")
Did I spell that correctly? Yeah, you know whom I am talking about…Mr. Bush and Mr. Gore. HA… Babble, Babble, Babble. That’s all. It’s all a smoke screen to me. Really, that’s all. \< taxes, more taxes, and more taxes, that’s all it is \> \< grin \> Gotta love Harry Browne 🙂 Okay, really I am done. \< hehe \> ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-both-bumbling-bafoons/36627/2 "2000-10-12T02:58:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by techchick68 \* > \*\*Did I spell that correctly? > \*\* No. It’s _buffoon_. Seen the new Snickers commercial parodying them? ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-both-bumbling-bafoons/36627/3 "2000-10-12T03:15:02Z")
We can all hope for a random meteorite attending the debates! Mebbie it will rush the stage… ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-both-bumbling-bafoons/36627/4 "2000-10-12T03:17:28Z")
I was thinking _ **baboons** _. ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-both-bumbling-bafoons/36627/5 "2000-10-12T03:21:37Z")
Hmmm… Two baffoons vieing for the presidency following a White House scandal, A Charlie’s Angels movie in the works, Travolta making big money, girls wearing flared pants and built up shoes, repetitive dance music popular… Hmmm… Okay, I’m investing all my money in parachute pants, checkerboard patterned Vans slip-on shoes and Rubic’s Cubes. ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-both-bumbling-bafoons/36627/6 "2000-10-12T04:07:17Z")
Now that I am set straight. Baffoons or Baboons, take your pick…they aren’t that far apart! hehe I would like to see Cecil and any of our truly esteemed posters here have a debate, knowing fully it would be more meaningful than what I witnessed tonight 🙂 Well, guess I will sink slowly in the abyss as this will never happen. I was hoping for some intelligent debating amongst honest and hard working (if not funny people). \< sigh \> ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-both-bumbling-bafoons/36627/7 "2000-10-12T04:29:13Z")
I thought both of 'em looked better than in the first debate. Not that it was hard or anything. I like Browne better than either Bush or Gore, but either Bush or Gore will be the next president and Browne won’t. These, as somebody or other used to say, are the conditions which prevail at this time. ---
**Author:** ![Archer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@Archer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archer)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-both-bumbling-bafoons/36627/8 "2000-10-12T04:53:58Z")
Two buffoons sitting on a stage Debating taxes and people of old age First comes lies and then attempts at wit Along comes November and which piece of shit? ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-both-bumbling-bafoons/36627/9 "2000-10-12T05:31:31Z")
LOL Archer, that one made me laugh! I love it! Please can I pass that on to my fellow local Libertarians? I will give you full credit! ---
**Author:** ![Azargoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Azargoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azargoth)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-both-bumbling-bafoons/36627/10 "2000-10-12T05:56:17Z")
This election year reminds me of the one Simpsons Halloween Episode where the two space aliens ran for Presidency. Something to the effect of Alien 1- My goals are to enslave the Earth Alien 2- My goals are to enslave the Earth Crowd- You’ll never get away with this! Aliens- It’s a two party system, one of us will get elected. What a choice Bore or Gush, A rich white man, or a rich white man…big choices. As Rage Against The Machine says “Was it cast for the mass who burn and toil, or the vultures who thurst for blood and oil.” Both candidates are really only concerned with keeping that Big Business money flowing in to help their parties. If you think they really care about this country, you got suckered by the propaganda machine. ---
**Author:** ![Archer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@Archer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archer)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-both-bumbling-bafoons/36627/11 "2000-10-12T05:59:09Z")
Techchick, by all means share it. I am happy I made you laugh. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-both-bumbling-bafoons/36627/12 "2000-10-12T06:14:56Z")
> [@](#): > > I would like to see Cecil and any of our truly esteemed posters here have a debate, knowing fully it would be more meaningful than what I witnessed tonight And on Monday, 10/16, you’ll get your wish. More info [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=41727).