En route to monitor the goings on at the King County Elections voting headquarters in Renton, one of our Stranger Election Control Board correspondents received an urgent cell phone call from her “daddy” in upstate New York. She reports:
My daddy has received an email showing Obama in Arab garb. He is now worried that McCain is going to win. He says: “The radicals are out.”
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I got this call from the Klingon High Command and you know what? They said that they are going to flip the election to McCain. Yeah, I totally think that is going to happen.
Being paranoid was cute for the first 30 minutes, now it’s just fucking pathetic people.
I received an email just now telling me how I could “increase the size and increase in intimate performance, Win the lady with Soft Viagra!” That one’s not true either.
A troll yesterday posted perhaps my favorite troll line of all time “Only the internet will tell you the truth”. Indeed.
You know, Comrade McSame has worn his Mao jacket as a Big Socialist.
But most people don’t know that, in addition to being born in Panama, that he had a marxist nanny until he was 11.
You mean he didn’t see the Arab Obama pic the first time it went around when Hillary’s camp leaked it and kicked off the Obama is a muslim meme? I hate the word meme, btw.