all in a day's work?!

it was over before i got to enjoy it. before i could watch it in the news, it was over and done. McCain conceded before voters in the state of hawaii, who, due to the difference in the time zone, are the last to vote, could even pick up their pens and cast their ballots. spectators who were following the elections looked like perverts whose sexual enthusiasm went from a hard 10 inch dagger on the opening of the voting and then shrunk to a pruned sausage by the afternoon. some people just can't stop wanting to see more action. it was like a first round knock-out when everybody expected the contest to go the distance just like the two previous US presidential elections. the Bush-Gore rivalry went down-the-wire in 2000. Gore even ask for a recount in states where he thought his supporters' loyalty went all the way to the casting of ballots.

truly, what a difference a day make. Obama was an unknown black man selling lemonade on the streets of chicago one day and then the US president the next. imagine had Hillary won the Democratic nomination, she would have been the former wife of a cheating president then became the chief executive herself who's out to take revenge against her fatfaced man and do a ... monico... lewinsko. gross!?

and bill will be sleeping on the couch from the first night on.

you got to listen to some politicians in Manila who were said to be inspired by Obama's win that they too wanna run for the presidency in 2010. they kind of sound like low-level employees daydreaming of becoming the boss one day. good luck! see you when you get there.

you got the MMDA chairman insisting for the presidency or nothing. he has placed his posters everywhere including places where he has even no jurisdiction as MMDA chief. his name plastered over buses which plies even beyond metro manila routes. getting too excited are we? since he's at it already why don't he campaign in asg, milf infested areas. perhaps terrorists might be interested with his overly premature presidential campaign. that will give them something to discern about.

if he ever pursues the presidency, the MMDA chair's case would have been: "the one running after street vendors one day, the one who run a pointless campaign the next"

you have the makati mayor saying his friends have started calling him "joe-bama" for the unobscure reason of having the same skin tone with Obama and not for their reformist personality. it was said if he ever runs for president, just like Obama, he would pick somebody who has just the thing he lacks as a candidate for president to be his runningmate. so since he has dark features, he would have joker arroyo as his VP. since both advocate transparency in government, they would use the slogan "everything will be in black and white!"

the mayor's case could have been: "the dark one on the first day, the one who bought tons of whitening treatments on the next"

one youthful senator said Obama's win only proves that people want youth in a candidate. hence, he thinks he has a fighting chance.

he could become the: "the young turk one day, the other, err..., he finished a turkey"

ate vi is in a class of her own, when everybody wants to run for president, she has her eyes set on the vice-presidency and is going after the examples of gov. palin.

but since joe biden won, what's she gonna do now?

she could have become the: star for all seasons one day, and then the next day, since joe biden won, she was scared for a good reason"

2010 is still 1 and a half year away and they're all set for the royal rumble. in fact, just like Obama who has now put up his economic team, some presidentiables, too confident of their win in 2010 and not to be outdone by Obama, are now meeting with their respective economic advisers as well. this early! wooohooo!

feeling!?

of elections and presidentiables and tina-fay

the US presidential election is on in just a little over two days. and some say it's nothing short of an epic. John "the maverick" McCain against Barrack "that one" Obama. both are now hard pressed on their last minute campaigns on major and swing states.

you got to admire both men. they worked hard in their campaigns. i thought Obama ran a smart campaign and McCain was unwearied in his age. McCain is very patient, you got to admire his loyalty to his party. after eight years of waiting at the sidelines for bush to finish his terms after both battled it out in 2000 republican primaries. he was invited to switch sides by sen. kennedy, but his loyalty to the republican ideals prevailed over him. now he's, what? 72 years old. and finally getting his luck working.

same thing happened when he was a POW in vietnam, he was offered freedom but he decided to stay with his fellow POWs. it's either his vietnamese watcher must have made quite an impression on him or you simply cannot question his loyalty.

and you got to admire also how he defended his choice for a runningmate in sarah palin, who was quite a sport despite all the satirical sketches about her. oh yeah! russian president medvedev, premier putin and everybody in kremlin are now fortifying their buildings, covering all the holes where palin could peer in from her windows in alaska. they're really alarmed by what she said and they're calling a national security meeting because of that. whoooh!

joe biden, on the other hand, not to be outdone by palin, immediately showcased his expertise in foreign diplomacy and visited gov. palin in alaska which he now sees as either a separate state or a part of canada more than ever.

biden's presidential runningmate is just as commendable as mccain. he rised up the US political ladder with tremendous speed. you can't imagine how displeased and irritated is mrs. clinton at how he sideswiped her along the way.

in the philippines, the political scene is heating up as well two years ahead of the 2010 elections. yup! this early every "presidentiable" is popping out with their ads and road banners to jockey up for their party's nomination. how often do you hear this phrase these days: "kasama nyo ako"? and some are suggesting that gov. Vi of batangas will do a gov. sarah palin. wohooow!

it is said that since gov. Vi doesn't have a daughter, her son is now trying to look for a girl to impregnate just to get that complete sarah palin resemblance, or just to get close at least, what with the glasses and the librarian hairdo and all. (eugene domingo-Vi's double- is now called "tina-fay"- after Tina Fey)

the son was said to be reluctant at first as he vowed, for an undetermined reason, to be celibate for life, but agreed eventually. he was last seen wandering around willie revilame's noontime show. ssshkimberlu! shkimpertush! eklaBuh! willie! aleeert!
WHO COULD HE BE AFTER?

to borrow from sarah palin, gov. Vi, so they say, is going to use this catchphrase to drum up her vice-pres'l campaign: "i could see who is visiting us from the terrace!"

my deep knowledge of US politics

the US presidential election is all set for next week. that's on Nov 4, Tuesday. and most opinion polls has african-american Senator Obama leading in most states. if surveys are to be trusted, America will have its first black president come January 20, 2009 who wants to reform US's policy in Iraq and terrorism in general.

when that happens, a major change in its policy will be the shifting of its war on terror from the Iraqi front line back to Afghanistan and will now include the Pakistan region.

now, terrorists from that front have been following developments in the US and are enormously unhappy, in fact displeased, with McCain's performance in surveys as an Obama win in this election would mean an end to their break from clashes since the US war against the Taleban. and, boy! are they packing up. in their future attacks, they've decided to have McCain as their sole target.

Iraqi terrorist on the other hand are celebrating as they will be getting a break from the fighting and have vowed to protect Obama in appreciation of his reformist policies.

Obama, BTW, is not the first black to be nominated for US president, and had Hillary Clinton won the democratic nomination she would not have been the first woman either. if you check the history of US presidential elections, on the lines of third parties, you would find Lenora Fulani who ran in 1988 and 1992 under the New Alliance Party. She is African-American.

there are a number of "other nominees" or third parties and indepents in this US Pres'l elections. including those who failed to get a major nomination from either the republican or democratic parties. (yeah! if you can't join them, try to beat them! that's the spirit!)

do you know that even comedian stephen colbert (of "the colbert reports") sought the democratic nomination for this presidential elections? 'bet you don't know that, do you? gov. arnold actually conceded because of this guy, not because he was not natural-born second-to-stallone.
Colbert was just goofing around actually (and arnold took him seriously).

now, how's that for my deep understanding of the US elections?

hah!...