All things being equal, Barack Obama and John McCain run the same risks - but all things are not equal.
John Nance Garner, 32nd Vice President of the United States from 1933 to 1941, said the vice presidency wasn’t worth a warm bucket of piss¹. It would appear many agree, and few, if any, are concerned with who our next vice-president will be, presumably because of the relative unimportance of the post (Dick Cheney’s Bush-push out of political mediocrity notwithstanding).…
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26 - Clavos
I concur with your wife, Clav.
I'll tell her that. She'll be pleased to know there are other discriminating folks out there.
In your fleeting movie career, did you ever run into Terry Gilliam?
Alas, no. Much as I would have enjoyed such an encounter.
27 - Teri Centner
I find it very interesting that so many people are unfamiliar with the "elephant in the room" phrase. There have been two modern films with that title, one in 1989 (a short film about Northern Ireland) and one in 2003 (a feature film about a fictional high school shooting spree); for both films, the title was a reference to that very phrase. I wonder how many people saw those films and just didn't get it?
28 - Baritone
I guess they just don't get that having an elephant in the room is like having a 500 pound gorilla in the room only the elephant is larger and quite a bit heavier. It should be obvious.
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29 - Babbalonian
entertaining to only yourselves.
way too much babble....even for me.