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JON CARROLL { Election jitters }
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 10/29/8 | Jon Carroll

Posted on 10/29/2008 8:08:24 AM PDT by SmithL

First, I want to stress that I am not at all nervous about the election. The sun will come up in the east no matter which candidates win, and no matter which propositions pass, and there will still be music and root vegetables and the glint of sunshine on the water. Politics is not everything - unless you live in a country that gets invaded by another much larger country that bombs your house and forces you into a refugee camp. Then politics matters.

But who is more powerful than us? No one! Well, OK, China, and probably Russia, and technically the European Union. But still, it's just an election. And I'd rather you didn't talk about it right now.

No, wait, tell me everything. What have you heard? But don't tell me that Obama's really far ahead, because that would be conventional wisdom and conventional wisdom is often wrong and there would be talk of the McCain Miracle. Oh God no.

But don't tell me Obama's behind, either. Sometimes polls are wrong, but mostly they are not wrong, and if he's behind, then probably he's going to lose, and then I would have to move to Canada and hide in my daughter's basement in Montreal. Because I could not take four more years of Republicans. Could not. William Kristol alone would drive me crazy. Next Wednesday, I want to see William Kristol rolling on the floor in agony.

Metaphorically, of course. I wish no ill to any man - except George Bush. Him, I wish ill to. Ill ill ill, George Bush!

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bds; bluestatewhine

1 posted on 10/29/2008 8:08:24 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Sounds like a threat to the President of the United States to me.


2 posted on 10/29/2008 8:10:57 AM PDT by impeachedrapist (Bill Clinton, as Arkansas Attorney General did you make Juanita Broaddrick pay for her rape kit?)
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To: SmithL

IDIOT!


3 posted on 10/29/2008 8:12:45 AM PDT by kimchi lover (Joe the Plumber is my Homeboy!)
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To: SmithL

Dementia


4 posted on 10/29/2008 8:13:02 AM PDT by frankiep (Every socialist is a disguised dictator - Ludwig von Mises)
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To: SmithL
then I would have to move to Canada and hide in my daughter's basement in Montreal.

I'm sure his mom wouldn't mind the extra basement space if he moved out.

5 posted on 10/29/2008 8:13:33 AM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Freedom's Fortress")
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To: SmithL
Next Wednesday, I want to see William Kristol rolling on the floor in agony.

Gotta love how the Left reaches across the aisle and seeks unity.

6 posted on 10/29/2008 8:17:37 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: SmithL

Zot, I wish all these creeps would just LEAVE this country. He probably said this before the last two elections, too, but he’s still here. LEAVE, commie scum!


7 posted on 10/29/2008 8:20:29 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I'll give a cheesecake to anyone who asks a Palin-basher, "How many abortions have you had?")
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To: SmithL

Mr. Carroll is poorly informed indeed if he thinks China or Russia is more powerful than the US.

Aside from that, he seems to be a meathead.


8 posted on 10/29/2008 8:29:53 AM PDT by RexBeach
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To: Tax-chick

Holy smokes, is this a dude talking? What is he supposed to be some kind of intellectual? I’m embarrassed for the guy...

When I was a kid, we would call another kid that acted like this a titty baby!

Can you imagine living with this guy?

~shudder~


9 posted on 10/29/2008 8:34:02 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: SmithL
First, I want to stress that I am not at all nervous about the election. The sun will come up in the east no matter which candidates win,...

He's nervous as hell.

10 posted on 10/29/2008 8:35:59 AM PDT by rvoitier
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To: kimchi lover

My sentiments exactly.


11 posted on 10/29/2008 8:40:39 AM PDT by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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To: 2Jedismom
Can you imagine living with this guy?

Two of his paid friends.

12 posted on 10/29/2008 8:47:47 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
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To: 2Jedismom

Really, my mother would smack him across the room. I’ll bet he’s still here because his daughter won’t let him move to Montreal.


13 posted on 10/29/2008 8:52:00 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I'll give a cheesecake to anyone who asks a Palin-basher, "How many abortions have you had?")
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To: RexBeach
Mr. Carroll is poorly informed indeed if he thinks China or Russia is more powerful than the US.

And the European Union??? The guy is on crack. Actually, he may be!!!

14 posted on 10/29/2008 9:11:32 AM PDT by jdsteel (Palin has more experience, and class, than Obama)
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To: SmithL
Are all columnists at the S.F. Chronicle whiny little faggots, or is it just this guy and Morford?
15 posted on 10/29/2008 9:16:23 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Somewhere in Illinois, a community is missing its organizer.)
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To: SmithL

Jon Carrol used to be the Chronicle’s TV columnist. Then they made him some sort of human interest columnist. Now he’s a Morford wannabe.

I can’t believe anyone pays for that drivel.


16 posted on 10/29/2008 9:23:46 AM PDT by telebob
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To: SmithL

“I wish no ill to any man - except George Bush. Him, I wish ill to. Ill ill ill, George Bush!”

I wish you would just go ahead and move to Canada. And take a bunch of other lefty loonies with you.


17 posted on 10/29/2008 9:40:52 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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