Don't know if this has made the rounds yet - David Sedaris on undecideds

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http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2008/10/27/081027sh_shouts_sedaris

Apologies if it has, but I think it's hysterical.

Excerpts:

To put (the two candidates) in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?”

To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.

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(I voted in) 1976, when I was nineteen and legally registered. Because I was at college out of state, I sent my ballot through the mail. The choice that year was between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford. Most of my friends were going for Carter, but, as an art major, I identified myself as a maverick. “That means an original,” I told my roommate. “Someone who lets the chips fall where they may.” Because I made my own rules and didn’t give a damn what anyone else thought of them, I decided to write in the name of Jerry Brown, who, it was rumored, liked to smoke pot. This was an issue very close to my heart—too close, obviously, as it amounted to a complete waste. Still, though, it taught me a valuable lesson: calling yourself a maverick is a sure sign that you’re not one.

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1. LOL

:rofl:

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2. Harry Klemash, of Philadelphia, would like the shit with glass, please.

Philly isn't a done deal, apparently.

Parts of Philly are not going to vote for the black guy.

NYT:

"As part of the Obama campaign’s get-out-the-vote operation, scores of volunteers were hustling in and out of the new branch office here on Sunday.

Many were from out of state, including two women from New York who said they had expected to be sent to more rural environs and were surprised when they were sent to Philadelphia.

'We thought, oh, it’s an urban area, it’s done,' said Marian Masone, 57, a film curator who lives in Brooklyn.

They said they were also surprised by the negative reaction to them in South Philadelphia. Ms. Masone and her friend, Eileen Newman, 62, who works in film management and lives in Manhattan, said that some people said 'no way' to them about Mr. Obama and that one told them, 'Get off this block.'

As for Mr. Klemash, the South Philadelphia resident, he said he was ambivalent about Mr. McCain, too. “McCain is too close to Bush,” he said, yet he admires Mr. McCain’s military service. Then again, he said, Ms. Palin was a bad choice as Mr. McCain’s running mate because she does not have enough experience. But then again, he said, Mr. Obama does not have enough experience, either.

His conclusion: 'This is a really hard election.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/us/politics/03penn.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1

Thinking is hard!

WTF?

After all this time, how can anyone out not have made up their minds?

Joe Biden, along with Jimmy Rollins and other Phillies players, will be in Klemash's neighborhood tonight, let's hope Biden can persueade some of his fellow knuckleheads to vote in their own interest.

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3. Thanks for posting.

Great laugh in the morning, (it is still morning on the left coast).

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4. k&r

I can't let David Sedaris sink without a kick!