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Anderson Cooper 360 - Upclose With VP Dwight Schrute
Posted on 09/05/2008ANDERSON COOPER: Good evening. Welcome to this special edition of 360. Tonight, breaking news, presumptive nominee John McCain names Dwight Schrute as his running mate. Barely four months until convention – this shocking admission has some voters confused, other voters overjoyed. In fact, let’s take a look at the polls. Looks like 90% of the Democrats would vote for a McCain-Schrute ticket over an Obama-Clinton ticket. I have Dwight here with us tonight for a shocking look at his ascension into politics.
...Where Can I Get My Democratic Swag?
Posted on 21/04/2008A few weeks ago we let you know about a little secret called GOPShoppe.com, where you could get all sorts of neat GOP #2 goodies. This week, I've come across Irregular Times Running Mate 2008 Shop -- a site for the Democrats! This one has a great selection of magnets, bumper stickers and t-shirts!
...Cheney’s Not the Only Dick to Ever Be VEEP
Posted on 21/04/2008A lot of Americans think Dick Cheney is the worst VEEP in U.S. history. Not only was he the chief architect of that wholly unnecessary clusterf*** known as the Iraq War, but he has led the assault on domestic civil liberties, advocated far greater secrecy in government, championed the torture of foreigners – but wait, waterboarding isn’t really torture, right? – pushed presidential absolutism and claimed that the Vice President isn’t part of the executive branch. Huh?
...Bitter-Gate: Obama's Blue Collar Buddies
Posted on 16/04/2008Obama's political gaffe in San Francisco may have been a death-blow. With blue-collar Pennsylvania, Indiana and North Carolina all on the horizon, Obama has a lot of explaining to do. He's been slammed with charges from "elitism" to being "out-of-touch" and "insincere" -- in essence, the sentiment is that he's just "more of the same."
Who will come to the rescue in his time of need? Who dares to come out and still say, "Well, you're a Bonehead, but I still support you"...?
...Dinosaurs & Noah -- "I Want To Believe," Says Cheney
Posted on 05/05/2008
[Satire] WASHINGTON—Vicepresidents.com readers who follow my columns may recall that Dick Cheney interviewed for the presidency of the late Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University, partly on the basis that university officials believed the Vice President was sympathetic to the university’s natural science museum fossil exhibit that labeled dinosaur bones as 5,000 years old. Cheney, however, voiced some slight skepticism despite his unabashed support of evangelical nut jobs.
GOPSHOPPE.Com has the right idea -- Take two things everyone loves (like say, a button and a poll) and put them together with a small price tag! At their website, you can pick who you want to be McCain's #2 and get a rather stylish button of a ticket that may or may not happen.
[Satire]Would any presidential candidate ever consider Alberto Gonzales as running mate? Not if they’re sane. Indeed, surveys reveal a new craze seizing the nation: imagining Alberto Gonzales in all kinds of unlikely scenarios, all of them outside the government.
...Will We Have Another Darth Vader?
Posted on 02/04/2008
Dear Diary, I'm feeling nervous and apprehensive about the vice presidency. Cheney is just so... untouchable. He wields the power of a Sith Lord and yet he loves his dogs. He opposes any kind of Gay rights and yet his own daughter is gay. He's shot people in the face and came back from the dead... four times. He plants suggestions into the President's head that have bloomed into wars and billion-dollar contracts. He swears, he skips meetings, he plays favorites. How can ANYONE or ANYTHING (cyborgs, lab animals and aliens included) possibly live up to this Legend?...McCain #2 Buttons and Forgotten VEEP Hopefuls
Posted on 11/03/2008The Clinton Strategy: VEEPgate
Posted on 10/03/2008
If you're trying to wrap your mind around recent comments made by the Clinton camp, don't worry... you're not alone!...A Brief History of VEEP-less America, Part 2
Posted on 06/03/2008
As we saw in Part One of this article last month, there have been no fewer than 17 times when America has had no vice president. And those times have not been brief either. Frequently, they lasted not days or weeks but years. The office of the vice president, it seems, is truly the Rodney Dangerfield of U.S. government. It just doesn’t get any respect.
...In a Nightmarish World: Alberto Gonzales For VEEP
Posted on 29/02/2008
“And the more bizarre the job, the better,” one respondent said. “He belongs anywhere except the damned government.”
