Full Disclosure: A Voting History

In (choke) eleven elections, this voter cast a ballot for the winner (Mr. Peanut in '76) exactly ONCE! That 40-year exercise in futility should lay to rest the suggestion that this voter is predictable or votes a straight party ticket. Nor is this blogger ideologically pure. "All over the (electoral) map" is the description that fits best. In 2008, I will cast my KOD (Kiss O'Death) ballot for The Hopester should he survive the primary campaign with "She Who Must Be Obeyed" aka The Hillster. If The Hillster gets the nod, I will cast my ballot for Ralph Nader (I). Under no circumstances will I vote for The Geezer (and his 100-year Iraqi War) nor will I vote for Bob Barr (L) who looks like Heinrich Himmler's lovechild with that mustache. There it is and here I stand. If this is (fair & balanced) political confession, so be it.
This blogger's voting record:

Election 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008

Voted For Goldwater (R) Humphrey (D) McGovern (D) Carter (D) Carter (D) Mondale (D) Dukakis (D) Perot (I) Dole (R) Gore (D) Kerry (D) ????

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Quick! Call In A Rhetorician!!

Graphic designer Steven Heller offered a meditation on lapel pins and such that supporters of The Hillster, The Geezer, or The Hopester might wear in the upcoming slog to the White House. Of all the suggestions, I liked the one from "Nancy" the best because it illustrates the buffoonery of The Dubster and all of the buffoons who voted for him. If this is (fair & balanced) elocution, so be it.

[x NY Fishwrap]
Campaign Momentos
By Steven Heller

Comment By "Nancy"


Any one of the candidates: A nuclear symbol and the slogan, “At least she/he can pronounce it.”

[Steven Heller is the co-chairman of the MFA Design program at the School of Visual Arts. He writes the “Visuals” column in the New York Times Book Review. He is the author of the forthcoming Iron Fists: Branding the Totalitarian State.]

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Avast, Me Hearties!

When The Hillster referenced (repeatedly) "a vast right-wing conspiracy," perhaps she was rehearsing for September 19. On that day, we observe "Talk Like A Pirate Day." In fact, see a Web site for this important observance by clicking on this link: Talk Like A Pirate Day Site. The Hillster might make a campaign stop at a Talk Like A Pirate Day observance and recite her litany about "a vast right-wing conspiracy." The Hillster used the phrase, "a vast," without realizing that "Avast!" means "Stop and give attention." It can be used in a sense of surprise, "Whoa! Get a load of that!" which today makes it more of a "Check it out" or "No way!" or "Get off!" If this is (fair & balanced) buccaneering parlance, so be it. PS: I always thought that a "buccaneer" was a helluva price to pay for corn. (Groan)

[x (One Of The) Knoxville Fishwraps]
By Charlie Daniel

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[Charlie Daniel was born in Richmond, Va.and grew up in Weldon, N.C. He attended Weldon Public Schools and Fork Union Military Academy in Fork Union, Va. He was a private in the Marine Corps and studied Political Science at the University of North Carolina, which is where he started drawing cartoons for The Daily Tar Heel in 1955. Daniel came to Knoxville in 1958 as the editorial cartoonist for The Knoxville Journal. He moved to the Knoxville News Sentinel in January 1992 and has been the editorial cartoonist at this daily ever since.]

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