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The Next US President

  
  

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bio k9
21:36 / 03.09.02
I nominate Fred Rogers and Lavar Burton. And you?
 
 
aluhks SMASH!
21:40 / 03.09.02
i'm only down with Lavar Burton if he has to wear that visor thing from Next Generation.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
21:40 / 03.09.02
Sharon Osbourne and Chastity Bono - just what the US needs... lets get some women in there.
 
 
remorse
21:42 / 03.09.02
Adam Yauch and Sheryl Crow
 
 
Mr Tricks
21:53 / 03.09.02
a fickus Tree...
 
 
Rev. Orr
22:03 / 03.09.02
Marti Pellow / Matt Le Tissier
 
 
bio k9
22:12 / 03.09.02
You've seen what a Bush can do and you want to put a tree in there? Crazy. And its ficus, btw.
 
 
The Apple-Picker
22:15 / 03.09.02
i'm only down with Lavar Burton if he has to wear that visor thing from Next Generation.

That wasn't a visor. That was a banana clip, spray-painted metallic gold.
 
 
doglikesparky
22:22 / 03.09.02
Yeah, let's resurrect the ficus for congress campaign but up it a notch to ficus for president!

Here is a little bit about the first attempt.
 
 
Puzimandias
00:13 / 04.09.02
In the Whitehouse after Bush, who we wanna see?
N-Y-A-R-L-A-T-H-O-T-E-P!
 
 
Sign of Qalyn
11:41 / 04.09.02
Bill Clinton and George Clinton.
 
 
Nick's Experimental Wrongness
12:27 / 04.09.02
Paglia and Chomsky.
 
 
William Sack
12:28 / 04.09.02
George Clinton - first rate. He has already fleshed out his administration in "Chocolate City". Arethra Franklin - first lady, Richard Pryor - minister for education, Stevie Wonder - minister for fine arts, but he sees Muhammed Ali as president. Oh, and he'd paint the white house black too.

No time like the present. The world demands regime change. Now.
 
 
I scream for ice cream
15:13 / 04.09.02
Seems like someone wants to cut out the ficus anyway: http://www.petitiononline.com/mmoore/
And isn't having a ficus in charge just rehashing the Adventure Game?
 
 
Sign of Qalyn
15:16 / 04.09.02
Nick:
Paglia and Chomsky.

It's President of the United States, not president of CBS.
 
 
deja_vroom
15:46 / 04.09.02
Carrot Top and Barney The Dinosaur
 
 
gridley
16:12 / 04.09.02
Politicians are a cowardly, supersitious lot. That's why, in these turbulent times, only one person can save America from the mess it's in... BATMAN!

"Do you love President Batman?"
"Why, yes, sir. I do!"
"Will you die for President Batman?"
"Yes, sir! I will!"

Vote Batman in 2004!
 
 
Sign of Qalyn
16:19 / 04.09.02
George Clinton convinces Congress to declare war on Iraq:

"If we gonna turn Iraq out, it's time to rock out wit'cha cock out!"

I think you're right, hir, I had the order backwards. I just wanted to see Bill blowing sax for Parliament.
 
 
Sax
16:37 / 04.09.02
Just so long as he dry-cleans his clothes straight away afterwards. I'm not being caught up in another one of them impeachment thingies.
 
 
rizla mission
17:20 / 04.09.02
Willie Fog, benign cartoon lion representation of Phineas.

He's the perfect world leader.
 
 
Nick's Experimental Wrongness
17:40 / 04.09.02
Qalyn: excuse me? Why are those two such lousy choices? A pragmatic, outspoken, intelligent proponent of 'Get off yer ass' equality, and a very smart honest political thinker.

Why on Earth is that such a bad pairing?
 
 
Sign of Qalyn
17:47 / 04.09.02
Nick, I agree that they'd make a great team, but I think they'd have more power and influence as network executives than politicians.
 
 
Nick's Experimental Wrongness
17:58 / 04.09.02
They're already commentators with a platform. It's time smart people stopped commenting and started doing.
 
 
Tamara Willett Hurt
(prev. Milton FUCKING Friedman)
18:31 / 04.09.02
"A pragmatic, outspoken, intelligent proponent of 'Get off yer ass' equality"

I was really hoping this sentence was going to end "...and Camille Paglia."

How 'bout Ayn Rand and Edward Said?
 
 
Persephone
18:35 / 04.09.02
I like Camille Paglia.

Early Paglia, before she sold out.

I'm serious.
 
 
Sign of Qalyn
18:36 / 04.09.02
I didn't realize we were being serious, Nick, but I'll give it a shot. I do sometimes wonder what Noam Chomsky would actually do with executive power over the imperial juggernaut; I suspect the Josef Konrad formula would turn him into some mad Caligula. Camille Paglia does seem to love telling people what to do, but I have no information about her ability to govern wisely -- it's more than just talk, you know.

Hence, network TV. Massive control over cultural mores, very little control over the life & death of citizens.
 
 
Ethan Hawke
18:41 / 04.09.02
I like camille paglia a lot. That doesn't mean I agree with everything she says. She actually posted a thoughtful, restained (well, for her) piece on Israel/Palestine when she was filling in at Andrew Sullivan's weblog. needless to say, it's not quite Chomsky's take on things.
 
 
Ethan Hawke
18:42 / 04.09.02
That being said, Flyboy's

How 'bout Ayn Rand and Edward Said?

is quite funny.
 
 
Tamara Willett Hurt
(prev. Milton FUCKING Friedman)
19:13 / 04.09.02
Thanks t.o.d.d. Got a link for Paglia's views on Isreal/Palestine? I'm intrigued...
 
 
Ethan Hawke
19:16 / 04.09.02
The Divine Ms. Camille on Israel.

Nota bene - If you choose to read some of Sullivan's blogging, do yourself a huge favor and take it in small doses. Otherwise, you're liable to explode from rage and amazement.
 
 
Tamara Willett Hurt
(prev. Milton FUCKING Friedman)
19:33 / 04.09.02
Interesting. 9-11 really seems to have effected some kind of major change in Paglia's take on things... or maybe it's just the inevitable shift disguised as 'moderation' that seems to afflict a lot of these former young firebrands as the get older (cf: Christopher Hitchens). But that's a topic for another thread...

Do we have to nominate US citizens? I was just thinking, in the same vein, but with the genders and politics reversed: Naomi Klein and Salman Rushdie!
 
 
bio k9
20:43 / 04.09.02
Do we have to nominate US citizens?

Well, someone already nominated a plant. It may have been an American plant but I doubt it has proof of citizenship. Ah, fuck it- OFF TO THE DETENTION CENTER WITH FICUS!
 
 
El Directo
22:22 / 04.09.02
Levar Burton my ass. MY ASS!

The only Star Trek actors capable of being president are Avery Brooks and William Shatner. Their cabinet has to be made up of Jeff Combs, Louise Fletcher, Salome Jens, William Sadler and Mark Alaimo however.

I fear DS9 in-jokes will be lost on you heathens, though.
 
 
gridley
22:32 / 04.09.02
I'll vote for for Ben Sisko in a heartbeat.

As long as he's got Garak running the CIA...
 
 
bio k9
23:03 / 04.09.02
What the hell? Star Trek?
Reading Rainbow damnit.

Heathens indeed.
 
  

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