Did anyone else notice that where Hilary Clinton had carefully positioned Madeleine Albright looking over her left shoulder as she faced the camera, Mike Huckabee had put Chuck Norris in the key position? This seems, in some way that I can't quite verbalize, to be a perfect metaphor for this campaign.
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04 Jan 2008 09:35 am
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Here, I'll verbalize it: Huckabee is an idiot. Oh wait, that isn't a metaphor. Huckabee is a stone. A corrupt, theocratic stone.
Personally, I'd rather have Chuck Norris as my Secretary of State than Madeline Albright. But that's just me.
Yes, I noticed Churck Norris over Huckabee's left shoulder and some gorgeous blonde (not Huck's wife) over his right shoulder. Smart placements, both.
No, Chuck Norris should be the Secretary of Defense. Then, we can retire everyone else in the DoD and just fly him around to kick everyone else's asses personally. It's about time we had a ninja for a Defense Secretary.
Chuck Norris isn't afraid of the dark... the dark is afraid of Chuck Norris
Yeah, I noticed Igor Albright over her shoulder. I couldn't stop imagining her rubbing her hands together and saying, "Yes, Mistress!"
It must be quite a feat getting MA to be capable of looking over anyone's shoulder. A box to stand on? A trench for Hellary to stand in?
Why not just vote for the tallest? Would that be BO?
Chuck Norris understands the ending to 2001: A Space Odyssey.
dearieme,
minor note, though, in this: "Hellary", I think you forget the 'i', as in, Helliary. Then again, I may be mistaken, which, of course, is something never to be heard from MA.
There is no chin under Chuck Norris' beard. There is just another fist.
I nominate this thread as "Thread of the Year".
There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to live.
This would explain why he supports Huckabee.
To think that Hillary and Albright and Huckabee and Norris are now metaphors for an entire campaign seems trite to me. Especially since all it really displays is an attempt at market appeal, in which case makes Huckabee the smarter of the two. Shoulder trimming is hardly recourse for the summation of an election's zeitgeist, especially when one candidate (Huckabee) won't even be there to see the big game.
Besides, if Chuck Norris really knew what was good for him and our country he would have run himself as an independent.
They shouldn't name that Hungarian bridge after Chuck Norris, because nobody crosses Chuck Norris and lives.
Sure, this is a pretty shallow interpretation of the caucuses, but my interest in the caucuses doesn't go much deeper. I'm not registered with either party or a resident of one of the important primary states, so wake me up when the list is narrower. I'll settle for amusing mention of Chuck Norris for now.
Actually, as I recall the clip, Albright was to Clinton's right (on her left from our point of view), and Bill was to her left. I'm not sure whether or not you intended to impute meaning to Albright's position "on the left" or not.
And I think the gorgeous blonde bombshell with Huckabee and Norris was Norris' wife; at one point I saw another clip of the three of them aboard Huckabee's campaign bus.
Guns don't kill people...Chuck Norris kills people.
Chuck Norris doesn't vote - he selects.
Chuck and Madie in the ring together to settle this contest once and for all...Chuck prepares with long sessions on his total gym with Christy Brinkley but Madeline show up in a thong ready for mud wrestling and everyone runs screaming from the pavillion...think it couldn't happen?
There was no genocide in Rwanda.
Only Hutus going Chuck Norris on the Tutsis.
I noticed and too pondered.
Money does not make the man.
Chuck Norris doesn't lock his doors when he goes out; bad guys lock theirs.
Chuck Norris doesn't buy hair plugs, he rips them out of John Edward's head.
"There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to live."
Heh. Double Heh.
"No, Chuck Norris should be the Secretary of Defense. Then, we can retire everyone else in the DoD and just fly him around to kick everyone else's asses personally. It's about time we had a ninja for a Defense Secretary. "
I can't get any goddam credit around here.
"To think that Hillary and Albright and Huckabee and Norris are now metaphors for an entire campaign seems trite to me."
Friend, we only work with what we're given. Their presence there on the podium was no accident. The candidates (or their advisors) made that choice, so it behooves us to interpret it.
Why not just have Oprah Winfrey and Chuck Norris run for president, instead of their proxies?
Neither Chuck nor Albright has what it takes for the job. Being a popular Hollywood action star or a popular Georgetown professor does not prepare you for such an important job. But for the Clintons it was all about having the right mix of women, blacks and other minorities as tokens in Cabinet.
Computers cannot divide by zero, but Chuck Norris can.
Hillary was looking for the Bela Abzug vote.
Albright vs Norris? And they call this election a "contest"?
When it storms, lightening is afraid of getting struck by Chuck Norris.
Hey I made that one up myself. Anyway, thank you gerontios, I've been pushing the Chuck Norris as SecDef joke all week!
They were both looking over the right shoulder. They were on the left side of the screen. Not that it matters just interesting.
Quoting Peter:Shoulder trimming is hardly recourse for the summation of an election's zeitgeist, especially when one candidate (Huckabee) won't even be there to see the big game.
Aaaaahhhh, but shoulder trimming is transferable, and we'll eventually see that trimming behind the shoulders of the nominees - whomever they turn out to be.
Besides, contrary to popular belief, America is not a democracy, it is a Chucktatorship.
"Besides, if Chuck Norris really knew what was good for him and our country he would have run himself as an independent.
Posted by Peter"
No, Norris knows enough NOT to want to be President. But where did we find so many insane idiots that do want it?
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When did the wall between irony and sincerity come crashing down, exactly? When did the whole universe go meta?
Posted by Freddie | January 4, 2008 9:37 AM