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blamebrampton ([personal profile] blamebrampton) wrote2008-11-01 07:10 pm

I must be on crack ...

Watching the news while writing, and the US election coverage is taking up a lot of airtime. I was astonished that the writer of the "Barak Obama, too radical, too risky" advert managed to stop before he or she added "too black". But that wasn't the scariest. I could well be on drugs, but it looked for all the world to me as though Sarah Palin has popped her Down Syndrome littlest into a Dumbo the elephant outfit.

Sarah! 8/10 for cuteness, but minus several million for tact!

I wish that Arnie hadn't been born in Austria, though. McCain/Schwarzenegger would have been a MUCH better ticket.

[identity profile] annes-stuff.livejournal.com 2008-11-01 09:01 am (UTC)(link)
The quote I heard from a work colleague the other day that nearly made me cough my tea up all over computer screen was something along the following line, he heard on the some hick in the U.S. being interviewed on the radio, it really is qutie disturbing.

"When he was sworn into the senate he took his oath on the Koran, and he wants to take away all our guns so his friends can invade"

(in this case one assume said hick was referring to Muslims)
Edited 2008-11-01 09:06 (UTC)

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2008-11-01 10:09 am (UTC)(link)
I think I was listening to the same radio program. It is an idea that has a lot of traction in the US, and it's bizarre. Obviously they can;t get past the 'Obama'. Which is silly, McCain has never had a murderous biblical relationship with his brother. Palin doesn't spend her free time travelling the planet making documentaries, Biden isn't a biddy.

'Mericans can be odd ...

[identity profile] shiv5468.livejournal.com 2008-11-01 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
I do hear that she knows all the words to the Parrot sketch though..

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2008-11-01 10:34 am (UTC)(link)
That would make me like her more, so at this point in time I refuse to believe it. I gave her every chance, but with her poorly researched winking and slurring, she let down bad-tempered brunettes everywhere. I'm taking it personally.

[identity profile] shiv5468.livejournal.com 2008-11-01 11:13 am (UTC)(link)
Surely no one can doubt she's a natural comic.

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2008-11-01 11:15 am (UTC)(link)
No, no, no, that one's Tina Fey. Palin's the other one.

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2008-11-01 11:32 am (UTC)(link)
You scored 12 out of a possible 12

You are either a highly conscientious political citizen or have an unhealthy interest in Sarah Palin or Tina Fey. Or both.

That was FUN!

[identity profile] shiv5468.livejournal.com 2008-11-01 11:34 am (UTC)(link)
I got the same mark.

And I did really well on the test to see if I could vote in the American elections.

I iz a geeenius.

[identity profile] shiv5468.livejournal.com 2008-11-01 11:43 am (UTC)(link)
Vote for MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2008-11-01 11:52 am (UTC)(link)
I would if you would promise not to make heels mandatory. I just can't walk in them.

[identity profile] shiv5468.livejournal.com 2008-11-01 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
Fewer heels for others, more for me.

This works for me.

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2008-11-01 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
VERY sensible thinking. I will take care of the sensible shoes and leave you to have a lovely ankle. (I give pushdragon my share of avocado for the same reason.)

[identity profile] shiv5468.livejournal.com 2008-11-01 11:59 am (UTC)(link)
Because they give her a lovely ankle?

This is news to me.

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2008-11-01 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Mash, slather on, leave for 15 minutes, rinse.

[identity profile] shiv5468.livejournal.com 2008-11-01 12:10 pm (UTC)(link)
It's better than eating the wretched things.

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2008-11-01 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)
My thoughts exactly.