The Fry Side

Steve Jobs calls it for Hillary Clinton.  Actually, what I really like is Jobs calling her “the Hildebeast”.

Speaking of Steve Jobs, here’s my reply to a coworker who mocked me for converting her to Apple computers (she just got a MacBook and is looking at iPods):

Yeah, soon enough we’ll get you a prayer mat with an Apple logo on it, and five times a day you’ll bow your head toward Cupertino and praise Jobs.

Catching up with the primary results from last night, it appears we did it.  Obama held a nearly 15 point lead in North Carolina and crushed the Clintons’ lead in Indiana to a mere 2.  Delegate-wise, Obama netted 12 more over the Clintons, so once again the math is increasingly against them.

And then there is the popular turnout.  In Lake County, Indiana, outside of Chicago, there was a 95% voter turnout.  I have never heard of such a number.  People were saying the norm is around 20-25%.  Obama helped draw out nearly every single registered voter.  That is what this man brings to the table.  It is incredible, and I am happy to be a witness to it.

I do not know when I was thinking, which is odd as it is such a rare occurrence these days.  I am sure it was while taking a shower.  Good thinking happens in the shower.

Anyway, I was thinking about this election and my kids.  My son is heading right into five, my daughter is less than two months old.  When I was born, Ronald Reagan was President.  My first understanding of politics was when I was six, I think.  I have a vague recollection of being in first grade and gathering that our President was George Bush (now the first).  So that would have been about in 1989.

Back to my kids.  I don’t mention to my son that there is an election underway, a big one, probably because I don’t want to have to explain Bush II to him.  I am just going with the assumption that Obama is elected President (with 90% turnout and 70% of the vote, of course).  By the time my daughter becomes politically aware, Obama’s second term could be wrapping up.  My son would not yet have a memory of a white man being President.

How cool is that?

Almost as cool as this quote.

He made the best argument so far.

From 2004 (found via the Minnesota Monitor):

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After class last night, I headed straight home.  I sat down on the couch and turned on my television and had the thought in the back of my head, ‘I wonder if the debate is still on.’  So I managed to find it in its last half hour and left it on while I checked some sites live-blogging the event.

Having read up to 9:30, it became readily apparent how awful the whole thing was.  Both candidates were obviously exhausted, and the entire first hour, it seemed, focused on useless gaffe-repair and media-only issues.  Not a word on health care (my favorite boring topic), social security, the war in Iraq, nothing.  Nothing of consequence.

So I turned it off.  I read up and watched for ten minutes, and it was all I could take.  I felt completely reassured that television beyond Comedy Central is useless for getting the news.  Still, I’m glad I pay for cable to at least get baseball and hockey games and some Thomas and Friends on demand.

I could not watch the rest.  But I am a little sorry I did not last.  Apparently, even the audience hated the show so much, they booed the moderators (who were definitely mostly at fault; those questions were asinine).  And the submit a comment section at ABC made me happy.  It is really, really, really good to know that Americans are absolutely sick of being pandered to, played with, and thought nothing of.  We are the original self-governors, and we want our wisdom to be given its due!

Here’s a lovely snippet from the Huffington Post.

Sheesh, I haven’t heard of someone trying to rewrite history so much since Ministry of Information in 1984.  Her supporters seem to be all for this change in the past.  I guess it’s the same as believing Bill Clinton was a good and qualified President.

Ms Clinton in Rwanda.

Ms Clinton in Northern Ireland.

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When’s the last time you heard a legitimate politician say such honest things?  Think about it.

Never.

Remember not even ten years ago?  The Clintons are liars and, dare I say it, selfish monsters.  In my brief lifetime, I have never lived under an honest leader I am aware of.  Other than my parents, of course.

No wonder I lean most toward libertarianism.

Not that I mean to be a conspiracy theorist, but:  Hmm…

Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn.

It still doesn’t give the Clintons a delegate lead, and the Texas caucases, like its predecessors, should go for Mr Obama.  But still this will go on.  And on.  And on.  It makes life tougher for Mr McCain, who I will vote for, who I will falsify election numbers for if the Clintons get it, because he has to campain against two contestants that have the greater favor across the country.

One thing, after all of Tuesday’s nonsense, has been proven beyond the shadow of a doubt: Ohio truly is the dumbest state in the Union.

Don’t forget folks: Hillary Clinton is a robot bent on destroying humanity.