{"id":142,"date":"2003-07-10T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-10T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opendna.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2022-11-08T12:48:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T12:48:05","slug":"it-was-the-4th-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/10\/it-was-the-4th-of-july\/","title":{"rendered":"It was the 4th of July"},"content":{"rendered":"

…and I\u2019d been drinking. (Cut a brother some slack \u2013 It was my Friday!)
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\nI heard today that Camejo, the Green\u2019s Governor wanna-be has announced he will be on the ballot<\/a> if the Davis recall goes forward.<\/i><\/p>\n

Now, my first thought was \u201cwhat the fuck?!?\u201d But the more I think about it, the more I like the opportunities it lends to The Big Picture.<\/p>\n

I should back up and say that I went to a Howard Dean \u201cMeetup\u201d<\/a> this week. I admit I\u2019m impressed with his campaign\u2019s grasp of technology. Granted, they didn\u2019t do enough to build local community, but they grok swarming and online organizing. It occured to me that if he (Dean) is a way-out-there-liberal then I\u2019m even further into left field. Homeboy isn\u2019t that radical, IMHO. If he\u2019s a leftist then Kerry must be\u2026 well, not radical enough for me, in any event. Randy<\/a><\/p>\n

Beers or no, you don\u2019t get my vote if you don\u2019t understand the technology<\/a>. Dad\u2019s point is well taken: we won\u2019t beat Bush on the basis of money. Dean\u2019s the only candidate to understand that there are other models available. So I\u2019m faced with Mr. K who doesn\u2019t under technology either, even if he is a little to the left of Dean, and\u2026 Dean?<\/p>\n

I swear to god\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to wait for Clinton 2008 to have some hope, man. That sucks.<\/p>\n

Well, it looks like the Recall of the Gray Davis<\/a> is going to the polls. So now we throw in the prospect of choosing between The Gray-meister and the Notorious G.O.P (AKA Terminator; AKA Schwarzenegger; AKA That Obnoxious Drunk Womanizer; AKA\u2026). Don\u2019t get me wrong \u2013 I\u2019m all for drunk leaders who like their women. I mean, who doesn\u2019t like their wine and women? Neverminded. The point is that Homeboy is notorious in Vancouver for his behavior.<\/p>\n

In Vancouver. (Which recently won the 2010 Olympic bid<\/a>, btw. The \u201cblasted Olympics\u201d writes one northern source.)<\/p>\n

Now, if someone was notorious for being a drunk and a womanizer in Hollywood, that\u2019s one thing. I mean, with the paparazzies and all anyone with a name can be notorious for something. But in Vancouver you actually have to pinch enough sisters\u2019 asses that it becomes party conversation. And let me tell you, I\u2019ve hear enough stories at Vancouver house parties about the Notorious G.O.P. that I suspect our Northern Sisters will blockade the Peace Arch if they know he\u2019s coming \u2013 he seems to have pinched half the film majors in British Columbia!<\/p>\n

And he\u2019s a bad tipper.<\/p>\n

God bless him, but is that the kind of fellow we want replacing Gray Davis?<\/p>\n

Maybe. But he\u2019s a Republican. And we really can\u2019t have that, can we? A Kennedy or Britney Spears, sure. But a Republican?<\/p>\n

So then we\u2019re faced with Supporting Gray, chosing the Terminator or\u2026<\/p>\n

What\u2019s wrong with voting Green this time? No, Really!<\/p>\n

I mean, the entire premise is that a corporate-whoring Democrat is too tied up with Enron, et al to do the right thing. Am I wrong? Obviously going to the Right isn\u2019t going to do any good in that respect. If we want a corporate-whoring working-crushing class warrior we\u2019ve always got Karl Rove\u2019s Boss<\/a> in D.C\u2026 At the same time, we\u2019d rather the Democrats not go into the next campaign in California with Gray hanging about their necks like a dead albatross. And we\u2019d rather they move to the left so that Dean (fucking DEAN!) doesn\u2019t seem like such a radical\u2026<\/p>\n

Camejo is a godsend, my friends. Not only does he push the whole Democratic Party to the left (by making the DNC scramble to regain California) but he inserts a fire-wall for the next gubernatorial\u00a0 lection. The role of the Green Party is to take the blame for the bad economy in the next election without making us suffer through the Republican Governator.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m thinking a Camejo2003.com campaign is in order\u2026<\/p>\n

Thoughts? Who want\u2019s a bumpersticker?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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