A day which will live in inflamy ...

[Joe Allonby]

By this logic, I'm expectng a call to offer me the Secretary of State
position simply because I lived on Eilson AFB in Alaska in 1973. I'm
obviously qualified.

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm really enjoying the "logic" by which, by virtue of Alaska's
> proximity to our old (and now defunct, in case anyone hasn't been
> following the last decade and a half or so of news) cold war
> archnemesis, The Evil Empire, she thus has foreign relations/national
> security "experience." Which I would imagine implies that, as Barack
> Obama will hopefully prove to be our first Hawaiian-American president
> (do note, by the way, all four points of the compass in this election,
> plus the 1st, 50th/21st, and 48th and 49th at LEAST states o' the
> Union represented--but NOT, in the face of decades of presidential
> political "wisdom," the Old South), he should handily be able to deal
> with those wily Orientals, and disspell any thoughts they might be
> (Pearl) harboring of extending their Co-Prosperity Sphere Honoluluward
> ...
>
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