Comments on: 2008 Election Fatigue 12 Months Too Early: Any Alternative to Just “Change Parties and Dance”?

By: Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:47:30 +0000

dear DLS, I think we ALL want to see in depth what all these guys and a gal are really about; not the suit; the person IN THE suit. I dont know. I was kidding about being pirates. But, I’m not kidding, and I know neither are you, when we see ‘leaders’ acting clownish instead of leaderly.

dear altamira, great name. Thank you for that. That was funny.

dear Meaghan, wow, you speak like a native. “Our plank be long and sound” also made me laugh right out loud

dear Spirasol; goodness. we need a pirate girl bodyguard, clearly.

By: spirasol

spirasol — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:27:54 +0000

There was a senator who thought my outfit was cute and made other seductive comments before it all went wrong. I never knew what hit me but there I lay in the middle of Main street, rolled over on my front, a knee cap at the back of my neck, my hands tied with plastic cuffs, blood leaking out from behind my pirate eye patch. I dropped my sword when I was first tazered and my three cornered hat was knocked off my head and went flying away. My uncovered eye is lingerie red from the pepper spray and I can’t stop crying. It all happened when I stood up at a Clinton speech , declaring aloud, “ahoy matey” , trying to get people interested in my treasure map proved a difficult task, though a few addicts seemed interested in my fake gold earring. Needless to say, next time I’ll have to strap a few fire crackers around my body to get a little respect.

By: Meaghan

Meaghan — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:19:13 +0000

Harrar harrar! So Pirate Party be findin’ its day an’ me thinks it’s none too soon.

An’ lest ye think we done fell off yon poopdeck a mere yestreen or two, remember: Our plank be long ‘n’ sound…

By: altamira16

altamira16 — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:53:31 +0000

The Pirate Party exists and is solely concerned with piracy laws. If they expanded their platform to include concern for the number of pirates being inversely proportional to global warming (as noted in Pastafarianism) and picked up a few more ideas, they might get somewhere.

By: DLS

DLS — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:19:24 +0000

I want to see the real campaigning

Not that it may make much of a difference — Hillary Clinton is well-favored to win the Dem nomination and the Presidency; the GOP leaders are Dems Lite and are unappealing, and the whole GOP field is largely weak. More interesting will be who becomes the VP “candidate” on each side, and that’s not going to be revealed for months, even if we have guesses already.

In the meantime, I suppose it’s fun to watch the “other” (less desireable) party’s candidates start to attack each other more harshly, eventually.

Hey, Rudy — will FEMA pay for future love den trips?