The Workermonkey

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

nfl commish 

# posted by josh @ 3/21/2006 10:39:00 AM

so, i have a question that 1 or 2 of you are probably better prepared to answer than i am. i was watching sportscenter this morning, and they went thru the normal candidates, owners/general managers currently in the game, etc, but then they said something that blew me out of the water. they reported, somewhat disjunctively and randomly, that, if offered to her, condoleeza rice would probably have to turn down the job right now as she has more political stuff she wants to accomplish first. my question is, did i totally miss something, or is the whole world just going mad?

5 comments

Yeah you missed something, 2008 will see America's first woman prez, as the ballot will be Clinton vs Rice. Now what will the extreme right do!? Vote green?

By  Damon, at Tuesday, March 21, 2006 12:25:00 PM  

i'd love to see that ticket because clinton would clean up. republicans hate women and black people, how the hell are they going to vote for a black woman? If we had another crazy rich texan like ross perot, all the southern white folk would vote for him while the southern colored folk would vote for hte only black canidate they've ever scene. divide and concour.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:24:00 PM  

Of course I'd love the events to fall as Matt describes, but even if dividing the vote didn't directly help the left, I think we'd be better off with more parties. I also think a substaintial amount of people would relate better to third parties than the two major, similar, corrupt, and idealess major ones, but they either don't know about them or are afraid to "waste their vote." It would be great if we ended up with two major parties and two significant third parties after the 2008 election. Maybe the extreme right Matt mentioned could vote for the Constitution party, and the left who aren't sure about Clinton's redneck past (sorry that's a reference to a Ben Folds song, but I am talking about Wal-Mart) will have to vote Green. And of course I think a lot of Americans could dig the Libertarians.

By  Damon, at Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:54:00 PM  

yeah i dont think the problem is that we need more parties...i think we have plenty.

i can see both sides of the "wasting a vote" idea. i can easily see where people would feel their vote is wasted if they dont vote for one of the 2 major parties, but at the same time maybe there just isnt enough support. perhaps those who are in the minority parties just feel/speak so loudly that they seem overrepresented. part of me thinks if so many people really felt this way there would be more order and organization among these parties.

or maybe lots of people do feel that way but its just that americans are a bunch of lazy assholes. seems very plausible to me.

By  josh, at Tuesday, March 21, 2006 4:25:00 PM  

The 2 party system we have is a systemic problem. We need to change our government to a more democratic one, like a Parlimentary system. The elections are almost rigged, just look at how they changed voting districts in TX. With all or nothing voting, such that we have, 3rd parties just dont exist, how can they? Votes for them are "wasted."

In a Parlimentary system of equal representation, if the Green party gets 1% of the vote, 1% of Parliment is Green, if the Libertarians get 2%, 2% of Parliment is Libertarian.

Bla.. Bla.. Bla..

By  wyldshaman, at Wednesday, March 22, 2006 7:55:00 AM  

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