Preferences

I think the important question is if you use roman numerals for the first two series.

My preferences:

1. Series 5
2. Series 4
3. Series 3
4. Series 2
5. Series 1
6. Series 6

M A S S I V E G A P

7. Series 8

8. Series 7

>I think that?s more likely than him becoming president.

Oh come on…give us a chance to vote for the guy before you write him off. He’s got an enormous youth following and that majority of female and ethnic voters…really, all McCain seems to have is the well-to-do white-male demographic, which is traditionally republican no matter who’s running.

Nobody’s got less faith in the American people than I have–that’s 27 years of frustration talking–but we’ve got a chance to turn ourselves around, and I for one see no reason to damn us just yet.

(Of course, ask me again in late November if I feel the same way.)

> Obama is second only to Jed Bartlett in terms of ideal Presidents.

This.

For those unconvinced, I recommend his book. By nice to see an American president who could write such a coherent, balanced piece of work…rather than one who’d struggle to read it.

Yeah, I stayed up last night catching the highlights of the convention, including Obama’s speech. It was lovely. Obviously, Al Gore was also off-the-scale awesome.

> I?m not a huge fan of Series IV though.

This opinion never fails to baffle the shit out of me.

So, apropos of the political discussion going on in this thread, John McCain has chosen one Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not altogether sure what to make of it–altho’ frankly, it feels rather like a stunt to me. However, short of some disturbing revelation that Barack Obama used taxpayer money to snort blow off the asses of underaged sex slaves with Osama bin Laden at al-Qaeda’s latest fundraiser or something, I’m still probably voting Democrat.

Yeah, I may have been too nice there. It feels a hell of a lot like a stunt, and kind of condescending: “See, ladies? I’m even running with a female now! Isn’t that progressive of me? Okay, yes, we want to take away the right to sovereignty over your own bodies, but if you elect me there’ll be a woman as Vice-President! And she’ll even be allowed to do some man jobs! Isn’t that what all you pro-Hillary bra-burners keep getting hysterical about anyway?”

>Bear in mind your entire fucking country is on the line. I think it?s time Obama brought out the guns.

I’ve heard it hypothesized in a few places that that might just be what Biden’s on the ticket for–to act as an attack dog who’s been long enough in Washington D.C. to know where the proverbial bodies are buried and who isn’t afraid to dig them up, while Obama keeps speaking to people’s ideals, so his halo receives a minimum of tarnish.

I’d have a hard time choosing betwen III and V for first place.
V is more consistently good, but I think the best bits of III are far superior.

OK, so it would have to be
1. III, V
3. II
4. IV
5. I, VI
7. VIII
8. VII

in fact, I prefer to pretend that VII doesn’t exist