The Veep Thread

[Chi City 81]

Not Kodos.
He's had enough of you people.

It's Kang or Die, Mr. biscuit.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Only a fool fights in a burning house.

 

[Oz]

It's still hard for me to believe what the Phelps people hope to accomplish in their escapades.

I think it's more ego trip for Phelps and his "family" follows along. I've seen it time and time again in Kansas, where he's lobbied and mocked some of the most conservatives people elected to Washington. It's just who he is, which is sad.

 

[Yawn]

Man, I'm having a severely dumb Monday. That Phelps bit was intended for the wedding thread. I'm going home and back to bed.

 

[Oz]

And it's equally insane to try and group everyone who isn't for some of the related issues to be placed in a tight stereotype with Phelps.

I'm not doing that. I'm talking about Phelps, that's it.

 

[alleyallen]

I think we could pick folks at random and they'd do just as well. Seriously.

I don't doubt that there are qualified non-government-connected individuals out there who could do a good job. I just don't think they'd ever get elected.

 

[The Big Ragu]

I think we could pick folks at random and they'd do just as well. Seriously.

I don't doubt that there are qualified non-government-connected individuals out there who could do a good job. I just don't think they'd ever get elected.

All you need to get elected is money and a populist message of some sort. Let's say Warren Buffet decided he wanted to be president. He'd have a chance at getting elected if he came up with a message that people wanted to hear. heck, Steve Forbes didn't have a populist message or a personality and he was able to make himself into a candidate.

 

[writing irish]

Fair point, jg, and I don't doubt it's true to some extent, but after the idiocy of the past 8 years, I'd like to see the POTUS' inner circle absolutely rife with people who know about everything there is to know about the long stretch between Cairo and Islamabad. People who could give a history of the Ottoman Empire in their sleep and who could name every Mesopotamian ruler since Belshazzar backwards, in Arabic, while alternating between Marsh Arab and Assyrian dialects, even if ripped out of their heads from smoking green Anatolian hash with Kurdish warlords.

 

[jgmacg]

Fair point, jg, and I don't doubt it's true to some extent, but after the idiocy of the past 8 years, I'd like to see the POTUS' inner circle absolutely rife with people who know about everything there is to know about the long stretch between Cairo and Islamabad. People who could give a history of the Ottoman Empire in their sleep and who could name every Mesopotamian ruler since Belshazzar backwards, in Arabic, while alternating between Marsh Arab and Assyrian dialects, even if ripped out of their heads from smoking green Anatolian hash with Kurdish warlords.

You know, of course, that as soon as we did that, we'd be attacked by Norway.

 

[writing irish]

Of course, said Middle Eastern scholars would also be in with the Lapps. We'd have a fifth column of ice fishermen and reindeer that could fork up Norway from within.

 

[JayFarrar]

I'd be more worried about Iceland. They were part of the coalition of the willing.
Yeah sure, it was one solider that they sent to Afghanistan, but she's been in the shirt and is now battle hardened.
Plus, Iceland is full of incredibly strong people. The kind of people who can pull a bus with their teeth or toss kegs of beer over 20-foot tall walls.

 

[jgmacg]

Their geothermal power will kill us all!