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Before its Too Late

Updates in drunk political theories:

stranger: “Obama is the Republican’s worst nightmare. They won’t be able to attack him. They’re going to be too worried that they will look racist”.

me: “Trust me: they are not worried about that.”

–Peacock Liquors, early summer

I saw it coming folks!* Of course, it was easy for me to forecast the “racially tinged“, Republican attacks on Barack Obama because, every day between 2 and 3 PM, I skip work and sleep in the Technology section of the Harold Washington Library.

Harold Washington was Chicago’s first black mayor, winning office (by a thread) in the mid 80s. The (terrible) campaign slogan of his white, Republican opponent was, “Before Its Too Late”. That is NOT a joke- in the year of our Lord 1983, Harold Washington had to run against a crazy white man who kept screaming “before its too late!”**

So, sensing all of this *, I took the liberty of submitting several campaign slogans to the McCain / Palin ticket last month. Please keep your eye out for:

It won’t end with the presidency

Who would your grandpa have voted for?

I’m OK with it, but I’m worried how other countries will act.

I’m scared shitless

NOTES:

* no self-respecting blogger should be pointing out that he ‘predicted’ Republicans would have a problem with a black president

** Harold Washington’s Republican opponent, Bernard Epton, only lost by 4% of the vote with his ‘before its too late slogan’. To understand how impossibly-close that is: Chicago hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1931 and has only had 11 in its 170+ year history… ..by comparison, we have had 14 earthquakes. …Epton’s campaign still stands as the most successful, Republican campaign of all time for mayor of Chicago (in terms of absolute votes)

QUESTION TO DISNEY: did The Superbowl Shuffle fix all these racial problems in Chicago?

RESPONSE FROM DISNEY: