PJ O'Rourke explains the Murican election to Yurrup

[sailaway21]

A quick primer on the American Presidential election process and it's contestants by PJ O'Rourke. Warning: Do not attempt to drink or eat food while reading this. Doing so could cause possible damage to your computer and to yourself. This column is a Level 5 choking risk.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Conten...gxotg.asp?pg=1

[Slipkiller2]

LOL
Thanks. It now making sense to me.

[camaraderie]

Sway...you owe me a new keyboard!

[Valiente]

Two points: Why is Barack Obama black in America? Anywhere else, he, like the half-Swedish Halle Berry, would be half-white, or possibly some type of foamy coffee.

Secondly, speaking of indistinguishable Europeans, does O'Rourke actually know that the Nobel Prize is a Swedish award, and not a Norwegian? Or was his editorial fact-checker's last job with Halliburton, trying to find WMDs and democratic success stories in Iraq?

You guys and your satire....

(Actually, O'Rourke pretty amusing much of the time...but he must be a tad bitter about his "comedy" being backed by such unhappy reality of the "dwarfish" standards currently on display.)

[sailaway21]

Uh, Val,
That might be part of the point. Sweden, Norway, what's the difference? (g)

[sailaway21]

A column by PJ O'Rourke that I stumbled upon pursuing other matters. It's his write up of an interview with the presidential canidate Bill Clinton conducted by himself, Hunter S. Thompson, and a few less memorable luminaries. A blast from the past.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200102/rourke