The Wrong Python

[trendy_nihilist]

Over the past few days, I've had a lot of conversations with politically-minded individuals. The conversations mostly go like this:

"What the fuck? Am I missing something?"

And:

"He's not president yet--should he already be exhibiting signs of Alzheimer's?"

The obvious reason for McCain to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his VP is that she's got a

Comments

[ralphyoung]

It's a good thing mccain shorred-up the alasken vote. Until this week it was close and the republicans may have lost three votes. BTW, I figured alaska was our smallest state but nope. Poor little vermont lags behind both alaska and north dakota. Go figure.

So anyway, let's figure mccain/palin sweep their home states. That's a whopping 13 electoral college votes toward the required 270. Some would say a vp from florida (largest so-called battleground state) would tip the scale toward mccain but I guess harris was too qualified for the ticket. Obama will win new york, illinois, and california but alaska is now a shoo-in for the republicans.

[trendy_nihilist]

Meh. Florida's taken care of. http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/08/29/clinton-impeachment-prosecutor-named-to-florida-high-court/

[ralphyoung]

Remind me again why we impeached clinton?

[trendy_nihilist]

He lied under oath. Granted, it was a lie about a question that had nothing to do with the issue at hand, but it was still lying under oath.