Comments on: Election List I: People/Things I Would Vote For President Before I Would Vote For John McCain http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/10/31/election-list-i-peoplethings-i-would-vote-for-president-before-i-would-vote-for-john-mccain/ I FORGET WHAT EIGHT WAS FOR Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:12:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Apryl Mildenstein http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/10/31/election-list-i-peoplethings-i-would-vote-for-president-before-i-would-vote-for-john-mccain/#comment-202624 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:21:55 +0000 http://scalzi.wordpress.com/?p=5025#comment-202624 John McCain is also a very good politician. he did not win because the people are not satisfied on the Republicans.:’:

]]> By: Theo Black http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/10/31/election-list-i-peoplethings-i-would-vote-for-president-before-i-would-vote-for-john-mccain/#comment-115237 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:01:40 +0000 http://scalzi.wordpress.com/?p=5025#comment-115237 My 20 are:

1. Billy Dee Williams

2. John Smallberries

3. John Ya Ya

4. John Bigboote

5. A john from grand central station, east platform

6. Bunny slippers

7. John McCain’s coat

8. a box of shiny new push pins

9. Morris the Cat

10. Todd Palin

11. Sargent Slaughter

12. a duck

13. The entire cast of “Time Bandits” in character.

14. Two hard boiled eggs

15. A nude painting of Ernest Borgnine

16. Wang Chung

17. A Nurf tri boomerang

18. a ball of wax

19. The President of Animal Planet

20. A stuffed beaver

]]> By: David http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/10/31/election-list-i-peoplethings-i-would-vote-for-president-before-i-would-vote-for-john-mccain/#comment-114678 Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:05:14 +0000 http://scalzi.wordpress.com/?p=5025#comment-114678 Now, if you like the Electoral College and two-party politics, that’s your right, of course. But why blame Nader for the system that the Democrats continue to support?

You know, never has an argument (in this case, that of the Nader-2000 supporters) paled so badly in so short a time.

Al Gore (since 2000): Oscar Award and Nobel Prize
Ralph Nader (since 2000): Doing the same thing, over and over again, expecting different results.

That Nader supporters were too stupid to see the difference between George Bush, circa 2000, and Al Gore in the same year is not _actually_ an argument in their defense.

]]> By: Dr. Psycho http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/10/31/election-list-i-peoplethings-i-would-vote-for-president-before-i-would-vote-for-john-mccain/#comment-114656 Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:03:56 +0000 http://scalzi.wordpress.com/?p=5025#comment-114656 I would vote for John Scalzi, Jeff C, John H, forbes, Mike B, Isanobu, Kimberly, Blue Tyson, Shindy, Brruce Baugh, Horia Nicola-Ursu, Name Withheld, critter42, micaelann bewsee, eviljwinter, DG Lewis, Shawn Powers, mjfgates, hamletta , Xopher, Will Shetterly, Jack Fletcher, abi, jack fate or Older.

]]> By: jack fate http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/10/31/election-list-i-peoplethings-i-would-vote-for-president-before-i-would-vote-for-john-mccain/#comment-114593 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:15:25 +0000 http://scalzi.wordpress.com/?p=5025#comment-114593 “13. The reanimated corpse of Millard Fillmore”

‘sup? d00derz is buried less than a mile from my apartment. We can make that happen. . . heh.

]]> By: abi http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/10/31/election-list-i-peoplethings-i-would-vote-for-president-before-i-would-vote-for-john-mccain/#comment-114592 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:40:23 +0000 http://scalzi.wordpress.com/?p=5025#comment-114592 As a dual US/British citizen, I have to say that I would not want to see the Queen become head of state of the US.

In the UK at least, the Queen is head of state (but not head of government). She’s got a small role in government, basically approving what Parliament or the people have already decided. But really what she is is the face on coins and stamps, and more generally the rallying point of the nation.

In the US, we have the flag for that. And, in these tabloid days, it’s worth pointing out that flags don’t have families to insult entire swathes of the population with ethnic stereotypes, get caught on tape talking dirty to people not their spouses, divorce messily die in car crashes, be subsequently sainted by the masses, dress up as Nazis at costume parties, drink to unconsciousness in stairwells, or become the face of Weight Watchers.

(There are strengths to the British system too, of course, but we really should not cross the streams.)

]]> By: John Scalzi http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/10/31/election-list-i-peoplethings-i-would-vote-for-president-before-i-would-vote-for-john-mccain/#comment-114587 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:03:00 +0000 http://scalzi.wordpress.com/?p=5025#comment-114587 If QE2 wants to run for president (in this theoretical world where a large, flat, warm rock is also eligible), then fine. If she wants the gig as Queen of America, though, I’d have to pass.

]]> By: Fletcher http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/10/31/election-list-i-peoplethings-i-would-vote-for-president-before-i-would-vote-for-john-mccain/#comment-114586 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:52:15 +0000 http://scalzi.wordpress.com/?p=5025#comment-114586 Okay, /here’s/ a question; John McCain … or Her Majesty Elizabeth II? Would a return to the Crown be preferable to a McCain presidency?

(As a Commonwealth citizen I have to support my liege, of course. But I’m interested in what good patriotic Freedom Eagle-saluting Americans think of this question)

]]> By: will shetterly http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/10/31/election-list-i-peoplethings-i-would-vote-for-president-before-i-would-vote-for-john-mccain/#comment-114569 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 06:34:50 +0000 http://scalzi.wordpress.com/?p=5025#comment-114569 Hamletta, look up Nader’s issues in 2000. Then look up Gore’s. Then remember that the Gore of 2000 was not the Gore of An Unconvenient Truth–if he had been, he wouldn’t have had to worry about Jeb Bush gaming the Florida vote.

Now, if you like the Electoral College and two-party politics, that’s your right, of course. But why blame Nader for the system that the Democrats continue to support?

]]> By: hamletta http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/10/31/election-list-i-peoplethings-i-would-vote-for-president-before-i-would-vote-for-john-mccain/#comment-114550 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:59:15 +0000 http://scalzi.wordpress.com/?p=5025#comment-114550 I’ll quit bashing Nader voters when they explain to me why they thought that misanthropic nutbar would make a good president.

I mean, really? Ralph Nader? Really?!

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