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I just apologized to myself for allowing me to get so fat, and I patently refused to accept it.

 

So much for me bangin' you. You know my stance on the fatties.

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So that's why you wouldn't go out with me. The truth comes out.

 

Well darlin' I didn't mean it that way. :flirt

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thank you, I'm quite familiar with the practice of blackface. What I missed was how it was funny.

 

 

 

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In case anyone's following the Kinky Friedman race, I just received the following statement in an emailer:

 

 

Kinky Friedman Campaign Statement

Friends and neighbors,

 

While Rick Perry was cheerleading in college and Chris Bell was being potty trained, Kinky Friedman was picketing segregated restaurants in Austin to integrate them. Now that Kinky's in second place and a serious threat to the two-party system, Perry and Bell have paid political assassins to dig back as far as 30 years through fictional books, comedy shows and song lyrics, desperately seeking to paint Kinky as a racist.

 

Republicans and Democrats have created an entire industry -- called Opposition Research -- whose sole purpose is to tarnish and destroy people's reputations. This is why regular citizens don't run for office. If you do, and you start to threaten the system as Kinky has, you're going to be attacked.

 

Kinky has overcome all of the obstacles placed before him -- getting on the ballot, raising millions of dollars, building the largest grassroots network Texas has ever seen, and breaking 20% in the polls months ago. He's a serious threat to the establishment, and when you threaten the political establishment, they use the money generated from their formidable fundraising machines to pay for "dirty tricks" tactics to manipulate the press.

 

It's a slimy industry that exists for the sole purpose of destroying people and -- like cockroaches -- scurries for the shadows whenever a light is shined on it.

 

The latest political assassination attempt takes completely out of context a controversial word that Kinky was using in a 1980 stand-up performance to lampoon racists. Playing a character on stage, Kinky was exposing bigotry through comedy and satire.

 

It's pathetic that the major-party candidates have sunk to this -- trying to paint Kinky as a racist when, in fact, he was poking fun at racists. Shame on the press for being complicit. Rather than confront our opponents on their tactics and get the full story, they are allowing industries like opposition research to exist and operate outside the understanding of most voters.

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"wow, you really love that pad thai, don't you?"

 

Kinky's alright in my book -- it's past time to take off the gloves and bring the dirt out into the open.

What politics needs is fewer professional politicians and more real people who aren't in it for the money

and a lifelong career. Anyone who's not invested in the grimy gutter that is electoral politics is just the kind

of person who should be elected. Public campaign financing and strict term limits. Amen.

 

am i in the wrong thread? :hmm

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