Goodbye Dubya!

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AMERICANS go to the polls starting tonight (Nov. 4 morning in the U.S.) to vote for their next president. Whoever wins (of course I'm still rooting for Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama), that will be the end of Dubya. Thank God!

George W. Bush has led the U.S. into becoming probably the most reviled nation on earth with its foreign policy missteps (what can you expect from someone who's never traveled abroad until he became president?), and with his economic mismanagement, has made his oil friends richer, while pushing many Americans out of their homes.

Goodbye Dubya, you will not be missed. (Well okay, maybe David Letterman, Jon Stewart, SNL, and all the late-night comics would.)

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Btw, playing now on HBO is the Kevin Spacey/Dennis Leary-starrer Recount, a dramatization of events w/c took place during the Florida 2000 recount. It's very timely because it shows how the American democratic system actually failed the American voters because of the fallibility of the people in power tasked to implement their laws and regulations. The U.S. Supreme Court eventually intervened in the recount and gave the election to Dubya. (Tsk, tsk, I wonder if the SC justices managed to sleep well at night throughout the 8 years of Dubya's term.)

Of course, Fate has a funny and sometimes cruel way of working things out for everyone's good. Former VP Albert Gore Jr. may have lost his bid for the White House but won an Oscar and a Nobel Peace Prize for his environmental work. So there.

Sen. John McCain on SNL/The Obama Ad

(I think 'The Sad Grandpa' would work best hehe. Poor guy, he really sounds desperate na.)

McCain has good comic timing, too bad that the material written for him last Saturday was not that funny. I think SNL writers gave their everything for the Palin episode and had not much juice left for McCain.

Palin 2012? LOL! More like Tina Fey 2012! This woman is just awesome.

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ON a more somber note, here's Barack Obama's much-talked "American Stories" ad.



I dunno why but I think my cynicism has taken over again. When I first watched this ad, I was affected by the 'real life' stories of the 'ordinary Americans' featured. Now I'm a bit bothered by the apparent slickness of it all. It brings an undercurrent of fear into the picture, that if you don't vote for Obama, kawawa naman all these people in the ad, they will lose their jobs.

It portrays Obama as having the answer to everything. He says the right things you, as a voter, would want to hear from a candidate. And if you pay particular attention to New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson's endorsement, Obama is just the most perfect presidential candidate ever.

Obama has run a great, very emotional campaign. He sounds very sincere and he has touched a lot of hearts w/ his message of change and hope. Now my brain is just telling me there's something terribly amiss w/ him (aside from his cigarette smoking). Or maybe I'm just overanalyzing.

AK Gov. Sarah Palin on SNL

IN case you haven't seen it yet, here are the sketches of Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live. Try to click pause when Sarah and Tina pass each other...the resemblance is uncanny. Too bad there was no Sarah/Tina sketch like that of Hillary Clinton/Amy Poehler's during the primaries.


Opening presscon


Amy Poehler steps in for Palin

INTERESTING that Palin flies thousands of miles to appear on SNL, but won't grant an honest-to-goodness press conference. Scary innit? You betcha!

In any case, if she does lose the election (and I'm betting my moosehair go-go boots that she will), SNL can hire her as one of its talents. She obviously knows groove to the music, act silly, and read cue cards. Whatta major achievement in the Republican electoral campaign.

I dunno 'bout you, but I'm voting for Tina Fey

Why I love my guy Dave (and SNL's homage to Iran's president)

I actually watched this interview two nights ago on Jack TV and couldn't stop from rolling down the aisle from sheer hysterical laughter. David Letterman is just relentless in his interview of hotel heiress Paris Hilton, pressing her to talk about her time in the slammer. (I didn't realize she was actually that dumb. All the while I thought it was just an act – something like Ruffa Mae Quinto does – pretending to be stupid and all but actually isn't? But just look at her empty eyes...there's no sign of intelligent life there! As sister Juneza says, Josh!)

Paris squirms from Dave's torture and he just doesn't care! Talk about interview technique – Dave shifts between patronizing her, to get her to talk some more, and then makes fun of her by asking her more questions about her jail time. Boy is she really sorry now to have promoted her new fragrance on Dave's show. All she could do was pout. Oh what fun!

Anyway, enjoy this clip.



OH, and here's a sweet one from the SNL guys spoofing president of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who was recently in New York and had declared in a speech at the Columbia University last week: “In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals like in your country.” The music video stars that cuddly Andy Samberg, Fred Armisen, with major backup vocal from yummy Adam Levine of Maroon 5 (and no, he's not gay ok?) and a cameo by Jake Gyllenhaal (he of Brokeback Mountain and who btw, did a fabulous spoof of the Dreamgirls song "And I'm telling you..." on SNL just this year). Funny, aren't all these guys Jewish? Well, President Mahmoud does deny the Holocaust happened as well...nuts!