This just in via my sturdy Google Reader feed: Who do you want to vote for? Who do you want to represent our country on the world stage? Who is less scary? Who is more trustworthy? Who is more statesmanlike and leaderly? Who do you want taking that 3:00AM phone call? Who do you want the Football to follow around? Please. Vote for That One. Because a vote is a terrible thing to waste. CAPSHUNZ PLZZZ!!! “Give me all your hamsters, I’m staaaaaaarviiiiiingggggg!!!” Via » What’s Up with “Senator McTongueâ€? » The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century…
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Worth a listen for a chuckle: what if Joe the Plumber could unclog the economic mess? Imagining ‘Joe The Plumber: The Epic’ : NPR Sometimes that 15 minutes of fame turns into an hour. Satirists Bruce Kluger and David Slavin present the promo for a fictional epic called Joe the Plumber — it’s the story about the one man equipped to fix the nation’s plugged up economy.
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I was just telling my sister in an email about listening to this story about Obama’s political beginnings. He’s disappointed not a few progressives and reformers in Chicago for not taking on “Chicago Machine politics,” or from “getting along” just enough to get elected. But he’s inspired a whole lot of people, too. Sometimes surprisingly so. How Chicago Politics Shaped Obama : NPR He was a young politician who couldn’t win a congressional seat in his own neighborhood, and yet he was asking the state’s political kingmaker to back him for a statewide race. Furthermore, Obama wanted Jones to help…