Election 2008: Meet Insanity for Prez!

Two years ago, the manga series Nana was turned into a live action movie to great success. It yielded two major hits for singer/actresses Mika Nakashima and Yuna Ito.

Logically, the producers decided to do a sequel last year with both Mika & Yuna reprising their roles and again providing two songs for the movie as well.

While not exactly a bomb, NANA 2 definitely underperformed compared to the first movie.

I mention this because the same sort of partly misguided logic that went into NANA 2 is the same thing that Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is trying to foist upon the American public in his bid for president.

Y'see, since one of the most well-liked presidents in recent years was a former governor of Arkansas, then surely another one would be good...right? Right?

Wrong.

(And not just because the phrase "President Huckabee" sounds stupid.)

Mike wants you to know that:

• He really wants to protect your 2nd Amendment (the right to carry killing machines in order to cover up one's sense of inadequacy) rights.
• He has a strong vested interest in keeping government subsidies for farmers (apparently Mike is under the delusion that it's still Mammy & Pappy Yokum running most farms in the US.)
• He'll be calm in a crisis, remove FEMA from Homeland Security and make them report directly to him. (His broken clock exception, in my view.)
• He'll support music and the arts in schools (Broken Clock #2), but you can school your kids at home without fear.
• He'll make us energy independent (but doesn't say exactly how).
• He takes the middle ground when it comes to faith and politics (which is to say, the status quo and quite a pointless statement when you get down to it, if Romney wasn't in the race).
• He loves Israel. (So?)
• The health care system is broken, but we don't need no stinkin' universal health care.
• He's as scurred of funny dark people crossing into the country as you are.
• No gays getting married on his watch. Only covenant marriages for heterosexuals, whatever they may be.
• No abortions either.

Mike, we know Bill Clinton, and you are no Bill Clinton.

Then there's Sam Brownback, who--I'm sorry--sounds like a specialised sexual act, and since he defines himself as "Principled. Conservative. Republican." it is likely that he may like this act practised upon him...often.

Brownback is really concerned about the dark people running across the border. It's his top priority. Now why are all these politicians from non-border states (Brownback is a senator from Kansas) all hopping mad about people crossing the border? Never mind the fact that illegal immigrants--especially in non-border states--are doing work for less money than legal citizens would be offered. Never mind that as senator he could've nipped this in the bud and told companies to start paying people a decent wage (even if that means curtailing their conglomerate dreams). Sam nonetheless is very concerned about keeping that border airtight.

Mr. Fetish ultimately says nothing new, but he's also all ripped up and hellfire about "culture and values." I have a problem with that. I absolutely think that young kids shouldn't be exposed to films, television shows, and computer games that they can't comprehend. That's why long before the V-chip and parental advisory guidelines on albums, my parents actually took time to watch and listen to things with me. Radical thought, spend time with your children and then you wouldn't need to have government regulation over the arts.

Another radical thought, spend time with your children and maybe there wouldn't be such a violent society for the entertainment industry to point out and/or exploit! (Fetish is on Myspace, by the way, so he can't have that much of a problem with those evil internet social networks.)

Fetish doesn't quite grasp either of those concepts, since his answer is regulation, regulation, and regulation...and keep having those babies whether they're wanted or not because he wants to protect life, but mentions nothing about improving the adoption and foster care systems.

I'd say stick a fork in him, but he probably would like that...kinky one that he is.

Next time: The biggies, starting out with the cover boy for pot-smoking, I-got-Mine, Republicans everywhere: Ron Paul.

Until then, let's leave with a "happy" thought: Mika Nakashima's All Hands Together, her (really belated, as it was released in June 2006) Hurricane Katrina tribute single...although it comes across as a tad bit unintentionally patronising in my view (there's a lot of things in those cotton fields, love isn't one of them).