Re: [scifinoir2] Obama Vs. McCain In 10 Sci-Fi Movies
Voted early last Friday here in the ATL... -- Original message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anybody else at the polls yet? Sent via BlackBerry by ATT From: "Tracey de Morsella" [EMAIL PROTECTED]aladvantage.comDate: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:50:37 -0800To: afrikanmind@hotmail.com; 'Albert Fields'cbilmarketing@yahoo.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED]com; CINQUE[EMAIL PROTECTED]net; 'Cleo'cleo.wadley@aliefisd.net; dorothyhamm@sbcglobal.net; [EMAIL PROTECTED]com; [EMAIL PROTECTED]net; 'Kai Pettaway'[EMAIL PROTECTED]com; [EMAIL PROTECTED]com; keithbjohnson@comcast.net; 'Kera'[EMAIL PROTECTED]com; [EMAIL PROTECTED]com; 'Michael Gordon'[EMAIL PROTECTED]edu; michael.v.w.[EMAIL PROTECTED]com; [EMAIL PROTECTED]com; 'Seku Brathwaite'everythingist@nyc.rr.com; 'Valery Jean'valeryjean77@yahoo.com; 'Wendell Theophilus Smith'wendellsmithis@gmail.com; 'Whitney J Evans'sono fafieldnegro@sbcglobal.net; williamsfred@speakeasy.netCC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ups.com; 'Glenn Sigler'[EMAIL PROTECTED]com; [EMAIL PROTECTED]rutgers.edu; [EMAIL PROTECTED]com; 'paul demorsella'[EMAIL PROTECTED]com; 'Chris de Morsella'cdemorsella@yahoo.com; Aradia \(Rae\) Corenti[EMAIL PROTECTED]comSubject: [scifinoir2] Obama Vs. McCain In 10 Sci-Fi Movies Obama Vs. McCain In 10 Sci-Fi Movies http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0id=61799My fellow Americans, science fiction has anticipated our current national dilemma: forever wars, economic collapse, mutant zombies running in the streets. Since we're already facing a bunch of science fictional scenarios made real, which candidate would best handle the real tests facing the nation: Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain?"Change You Can Believe in" is great, so long as abominations from the hollow earth aren't trying to change your very DNA, and putting "Country First" might not be enough when the whole damned species is threatened by lizard-faced extra-dimensional organ harvesters.Take the following scenarios from SF movies:1. The Movie: Escape From New York. The President: Donald Pleasence. The Crisis: With all of Manhattan turned into a maximum-security federal prison, a Patty Hearst-like teenybopper Tania take-off terrorist seizes Air Force One and crashes it into Midtown, where the Prez is taken hostage by a gang of convicts led by the voice of Chef himself, Isaac Hayes!Candidate best suited for the crisis: Obama As a former community organizer, he's got a track record in difficult urban settings in which times are tough; even though Hayes' predecessor as the boss of New York, Rudy Giuliani, might diss it, this is valuable experience! And hey ... if you listen to certain talk-radio ranters, Obama really knows how to talk to domestic terrorists in really "palsy-walsy" terms! It might make it easier for Obama to get the New York State vote, but with 8 million votes in Manhattan negated (felons can't vote in New York State), those 31 electoral votes might get trimmed down some. 2. The Movie: Superman II.The President: E.G. Marshall.The Crisis: Phantom Zone escapees Ursa, Non and General Zod use their incredible superpowers to subdue the "Planet Houston" (OK ... "Earth"), raiding the White House and forcing a comically toupee'd president (whose rug makes Joe Biden's hair plugs look as natural as Fabio's mane) to kneel before Zod and swear fealty to the Kryptonian criminal.Candidate best suited for the crisis: McCain His "Secure Borders" policy would apply to Kryptonians, too (even though if he extended it to include Smallville, Kan., he might alienate Sen. Brownback and lose six electoral votes in the process). 'Sides, ... who wouldn't want to see a catfight between Ursa and Palin (under whose jurisdiction Superman's Fortress of Solitude would fall, assuming it's not on federal land)? 3. The Movie: Independence Day.The President: Bill Pullman. The Crisis: A bunch of really nasty and hostile aliens take a page from Clarke's Childhood's End and make it real as they park giant spacecraft over the world's cities and proceed to blow them up. A ragtag bunch of refugees must rise up and fight the invaders.Candidate best suited for the crisis: McCain At the climax, President Pullman clambers into a fighter jet and joins an assault on the aliens. Well, we know who's got the edge there, don't we, even though he might be a little rusty after 40 or so years? The crisis forces the Prez to nuke Houston, so that's 34 electoral votes from Texas vaporized into shiny, shiny fallout. 4. The Movie: Fail Safe. The President: Henry Fonda. The Crisis: Six Vindicator bombers are screeching their way into Russia. Having gone past their "fail safe" points, they can't be recalled, so the Prez must get on the Moscow hotline (along with translator Larry Hagman) to help the Soviets bring down the squadron before Moscow is nuked to glowing rubble while a hawkish academic named Professor Groeteschel
Re: [scifinoir2] Obama Vs. McCain In 10 Sci-Fi Movies
Early voting must be nice! Sent via BlackBerry by ATT -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:29:30 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Obama Vs. McCain In 10 Sci-Fi Movies Voted early last Friday here in the ATL... -- Original message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anybody else at the polls yet? Sent via BlackBerry by ATT From: Tracey de Morsella [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:50:37 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Albert Fields'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; CINQUE[EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Cleo'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Kai Pettaway'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Kera'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Michael Gordon'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Seku Brathwaite'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Valery Jean'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Wendell Theophilus Smith'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Whitney J Evans'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com; 'Glenn Sigler'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'paul demorsella'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Chris de Morsella'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Aradia \(Rae\) Corenti[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [scifinoir2] Obama Vs. McCain In 10 Sci-Fi Movies Obama Vs. McCain In 10 Sci-Fi Movies http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0id=61799 My fellow Americans, science fiction has anticipated our current national dilemma: forever wars, economic collapse, mutant zombies running in the streets. Since we're already facing a bunch of science fictional scenarios made real, which candidate would best handle the real tests facing the nation: Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain? Change You Can Believe in is great, so long as abominations from the hollow earth aren't trying to change your very DNA, and putting Country First might not be enough when the whole damned species is threatened by lizard-faced extra-dimensional organ harvesters. Take the following scenarios from SF movies: 1. The Movie: Escape From New York. The President: Donald Pleasence. The Crisis: With all of Manhattan turned into a maximum-security federal prison, a Patty Hearst-like teenybopper Tania take-off terrorist seizes Air Force One and crashes it into Midtown, where the Prez is taken hostage by a gang of convicts led by the voice of Chef himself, Isaac Hayes! Candidate best suited for the crisis: Obama As a former community organizer, he's got a track record in difficult urban settings in which times are tough; even though Hayes' predecessor as the boss of New York, Rudy Giuliani, might diss it, this is valuable experience! And hey ... if you listen to certain talk-radio ranters, Obama really knows how to talk to domestic terrorists in really palsy-walsy terms! It might make it easier for Obama to get the New York State vote, but with 8 million votes in Manhattan negated (felons can't vote in New York State), those 31 electoral votes might get trimmed down some. 2. The Movie: Superman II. The President: E.G. Marshall. The Crisis: Phantom Zone escapees Ursa, Non and General Zod use their incredible superpowers to subdue the Planet Houston (OK ... Earth), raiding the White House and forcing a comically toupee'd president (whose rug makes Joe Biden's hair plugs look as natural as Fabio's mane) to kneel before Zod and swear fealty to the Kryptonian criminal. Candidate best suited for the crisis: McCain His Secure Borders policy would apply to Kryptonians, too (even though if he extended it to include Smallville, Kan., he might alienate Sen. Brownback and lose six electoral votes in the process). 'Sides, ... who wouldn't want to see a catfight between Ursa and Palin (under whose jurisdiction Superman's Fortress of Solitude would fall, assuming it's not on federal land)? 3. The Movie: Independence Day. The President: Bill Pullman. The Crisis: A bunch of really nasty and hostile aliens take a page from Clarke's Childhood's End and make it real as they park giant spacecraft over the world's cities and proceed to blow them up. A ragtag bunch of refugees must rise up and fight the invaders. Candidate best suited for the crisis: McCain At the climax, President Pullman clambers into a fighter jet and joins an assault on the aliens. Well, we know who's got the edge there, don't we, even though he might be a little rusty after 40 or so years? The crisis forces the Prez to nuke Houston, so that's 34 electoral votes from Texas vaporized into shiny, shiny fallout. 4. The Movie: Fail Safe. The President: Henry Fonda. The Crisis: Six Vindicator bombers are screeching their way into Russia. Having gone past their fail safe points, they can't be recalled, so the Prez must get on the Moscow hotline (along with translator Larry Hagman) to help the Soviets bring down the squadron before Moscow is nuked to glowing rubble while
Re: [scifinoir2] Obama Vs. McCain In 10 Sci-Fi Movies
Anybody else at the polls yet? Sent via BlackBerry by ATT -Original Message- From: Tracey de Morsella [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:50:37 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Albert Fields'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; CINQUE[EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Cleo'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Kai Pettaway'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Kera'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Michael Gordon'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Seku Brathwaite'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Valery Jean'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Wendell Theophilus Smith'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Whitney J Evans'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com; 'Glenn Sigler'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'paul demorsella'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Chris de Morsella'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Aradia \(Rae\) Corenti[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [scifinoir2] Obama Vs. McCain In 10 Sci-Fi Movies Obama Vs. McCain In 10 Sci-Fi Movies http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0id=61799 My fellow Americans, science fiction has anticipated our current national dilemma: forever wars, economic collapse, mutant zombies running in the streets. Since we're already facing a bunch of science fictional scenarios made real, which candidate would best handle the real tests facing the nation: Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain? Change You Can Believe in is great, so long as abominations from the hollow earth aren't trying to change your very DNA, and putting Country First might not be enough when the whole damned species is threatened by lizard-faced extra-dimensional organ harvesters. Take the following scenarios from SF movies: 1. The Movie: Escape From New York. pleasence The President: Donald Pleasence. The Crisis: With all of Manhattan turned into a maximum-security federal prison, a Patty Hearst-like teenybopper Tania take-off terrorist seizes Air Force One and crashes it into Midtown, where the Prez is taken hostage by a gang of convicts led by the voice of Chef himself, Isaac Hayes! Candidate best suited for the crisis: Obama http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/news_thumbnails/Obama_tn.jpg As a former community organizer, he's got a track record in difficult urban settings in which times are tough; even though Hayes' predecessor as the boss of New York, Rudy Giuliani, might diss it, this is valuable experience! And hey ... if you listen to certain talk-radio ranters, Obama really knows how to talk to domestic terrorists in really palsy-walsy terms! It might make it easier for Obama to get the New York State vote, but with 8 million votes in Manhattan negated (felons can't vote in New York State), those 31 electoral votes might get trimmed down some. _ 2. The Movie: Superman II. The President: E.G. Marshall. The Crisis: Phantom Zone escapees Ursa, Non and General Zod use their incredible superpowers to subdue the Planet Houston (OK ... Earth), raiding the White House and forcing a comically toupee'd president (whose rug makes Joe Biden's hair plugs look as natural as Fabio's mane) to kneel before Zod and swear fealty to the Kryptonian criminal. Candidate best suited for the crisis: McCain happening His Secure Borders policy would apply to Kryptonians, too (even though if he extended it to include Smallville, Kan., he might alienate Sen. Brownback and lose six electoral votes in the process). 'Sides, ... who wouldn't want to see a catfight between Ursa and Palin (under whose jurisdiction Superman's Fortress of Solitude would fall, assuming it's not on federal land)? _ 3. The Movie: Independence Day. The President: Bill Pullman. The Crisis: A bunch of really nasty and hostile aliens take a page from Clarke's Childhood's End and make it real as they park giant spacecraft over the world's cities and proceed to blow them up. A ragtag bunch of refugees must rise up and fight the invaders. Candidate best suited for the crisis: McCain happening At the climax, President Pullman clambers into a fighter jet and joins an assault on the aliens. Well, we know who's got the edge there, don't we, even though he might be a little rusty after 40 or so years? The crisis forces the Prez to nuke Houston, so that's 34 electoral votes from Texas vaporized into shiny, shiny fallout. _ 4. The Movie: Fail Safe. fonda The President: Henry Fonda. The Crisis: Six Vindicator bombers are screeching their way into Russia. Having gone past their fail safe points, they can't be recalled, so the Prez must get on the Moscow hotline (along with translator Larry Hagman) to help the Soviets bring down the squadron before Moscow is nuked to glowing rubble while a hawkish academic named Professor Groeteschele (Walter Matthau) offers tips on how to use this SNAFU to end the Russkies once and for all. Candidate best suited for the crisis: Obama happening As the character Professor Groeteschele
Re: [scifinoir2] Obama Vs. McCain In 10 Sci-Fi Movies
Yep. About 2 weeks ago here in NC. On Nov 4, 2008, at 1:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Voted early last Friday here in the ATL... -- Original message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anybody else at the polls yet? Sent via BlackBerry by ATT From: Tracey de Morsella [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:50:37 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Albert Fields'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; CINQUE[EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Cleo'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Kai Pettaway'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Kera'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Michael Gordon'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Seku Brathwaite'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Valery Jean'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Wendell Theophilus Smith'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Whitney J Evans'sono [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com; 'Glenn Sigler'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'paul demorsella'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Chris de Morsella'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Aradia \(Rae\) Corenti[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [scifinoir2] Obama Vs. McCain In 10 Sci-Fi Movies Obama Vs. McCain In 10 Sci-Fi Movies http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0id=61799 My fellow Americans, science fiction has anticipated our current national dilemma: forever wars, economic collapse, mutant zombies running in the streets. Since we're already facing a bunch of science fictional scenarios made real, which candidate would best handle the real tests facing the nation: Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain? Change You Can Believe in is great, so long as abominations from the hollow earth aren't trying to change your very DNA, and putting Country First might not be enough when the whole damned species is threatened by lizard-faced extra-dimensional organ harvesters. Take the following scenarios from SF movies: 1. The Movie: Escape From New York. The President: Donald Pleasence. The Crisis: With all of Manhattan turned into a maximum-security federal prison, a Patty Hearst-like teenybopper Tania take-off terrorist seizes Air Force One and crashes it into Midtown, where the Prez is taken hostage by a gang of convicts led by the voice of Chef himself, Isaac Hayes! Candidate best suited for the crisis: Obama As a former community organizer, he's got a track record in difficult urban settings in which times are tough; even though Hayes' predecessor as the boss of New York, Rudy Giuliani, might diss it, this is valuable experience! And hey ... if you listen to certain talk-radio ranters, Obama really knows how to talk to domestic terrorists in really palsy-walsy terms! It might make it easier for Obama to get the New York State vote, but with 8 million votes in Manhattan negated (felons can't vote in New York State), those 31 electoral votes might get trimmed down some. 2. The Movie: Superman II. The President: E.G. Marshall. The Crisis: Phantom Zone escapees Ursa, Non and General Zod use their incredible superpowers to subdue the Planet Houston (OK ... Earth), raiding the White House and forcing a comically toupee'd president (whose rug makes Joe Biden's hair plugs look as natural as Fabio's mane) to kneel before Zod and swear fealty to the Kryptonian criminal. Candidate best suited for the crisis: McCain His Secure Borders policy would apply to Kryptonians, too (even though if he extended it to include Smallville, Kan., he might alienate Sen. Brownback and lose six electoral votes in the process). 'Sides, ... who wouldn't want to see a catfight between Ursa and Palin (under whose jurisdiction Superman's Fortress of Solitude would fall, assuming it's not on federal land)? 3. The Movie: Independence Day. The President: Bill Pullman. The Crisis: A bunch of really nasty and hostile aliens take a page from Clarke's Childhood's End and make it real as they park giant spacecraft over the world's cities and proceed to blow them up. A ragtag bunch of refugees must rise up and fight the invaders. Candidate best suited for the crisis: McCain At the climax, President Pullman clambers into a fighter jet and joins an assault on the aliens. Well, we know who's got the edge there, don't we, even though he might be a little rusty after 40 or so years? The crisis forces the Prez to nuke Houston, so that's 34 electoral votes from Texas vaporized into shiny, shiny fallout. 4. The Movie: Fail Safe. The President: Henry Fonda. The Crisis: Six Vindicator bombers are screeching their way into Russia. Having gone past their fail safe points, they can't be recalled, so the Prez must get on the Moscow hotline (along with translator Larry Hagman) to help the Soviets bring down the squadron before Moscow is nuked to glowing rubble while a hawkish academic named Professor Groeteschele (Walter Matthau
RE: [scifinoir2] Obama Vs. McCain In 10 Sci-Fi Movies
I voted last Tuesday From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daryle Lockhart Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 3:11 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Obama Vs. McCain In 10 Sci-Fi Movies Yep. About 2 weeks ago here in NC. On Nov 4, 2008, at 1:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Voted early last Friday here in the ATL... -- Original message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anybody else at the polls yet? Sent via BlackBerry by ATT _ From: Tracey de Morsella [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:50:37 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Albert Fields'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; CINQUE[EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Cleo'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Kai Pettaway'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Kera'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Michael Gordon'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Seku Brathwaite'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Valery Jean'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Wendell Theophilus Smith'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Whitney J Evans'sono [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com; 'Glenn Sigler'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'paul demorsella'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Chris de Morsella'[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Aradia \(Rae\) Corenti[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [scifinoir2] Obama Vs. McCain In 10 Sci-Fi Movies Obama Vs. McCain In 10 Sci-Fi Movies http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0id=61799 My fellow Americans, science fiction has anticipated our current national dilemma: forever wars, economic collapse, mutant zombies running in the streets. Since we're already facing a bunch of science fictional scenarios made real, which candidate would best handle the real tests facing the nation: Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain? Change You Can Believe in is great, so long as abominations from the hollow earth aren't trying to change your very DNA, and putting Country First might not be enough when the whole damned species is threatened by lizard-faced extra-dimensional organ harvesters. Take the following scenarios from SF movies: 1. The Movie: Escape From New York. pleasence The President: Donald Pleasence. The Crisis: With all of Manhattan turned into a maximum-security federal prison, a Patty Hearst-like teenybopper Tania take-off terrorist seizes Air Force One and crashes it into Midtown, where the Prez is taken hostage by a gang of convicts led by the voice of Chef himself, Isaac Hayes! Candidate best suited for the crisis: Obama http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/news_thumbnails/Obama_tn.jpg As a former community organizer, he's got a track record in difficult urban settings in which times are tough; even though Hayes' predecessor as the boss of New York, Rudy Giuliani, might diss it, this is valuable experience! And hey ... if you listen to certain talk-radio ranters, Obama really knows how to talk to domestic terrorists in really palsy-walsy terms! It might make it easier for Obama to get the New York State vote, but with 8 million votes in Manhattan negated (felons can't vote in New York State), those 31 electoral votes might get trimmed down some. _ 2. The Movie: Superman II. The President: E.G. Marshall. The Crisis: Phantom Zone escapees Ursa, Non and General Zod use their incredible superpowers to subdue the Planet Houston (OK ... Earth), raiding the White House and forcing a comically toupee'd president (whose rug makes Joe Biden's hair plugs look as natural as Fabio's mane) to kneel before Zod and swear fealty to the Kryptonian criminal. Candidate best suited for the crisis: McCain happening His Secure Borders policy would apply to Kryptonians, too (even though if he extended it to include Smallville, Kan., he might alienate Sen. Brownback and lose six electoral votes in the process). 'Sides, ... who wouldn't want to see a catfight between Ursa and Palin (under whose jurisdiction Superman's Fortress of Solitude would fall, assuming it's not on federal land)? _ 3. The Movie: Independence Day. The President: Bill Pullman. The Crisis: A bunch of really nasty and hostile aliens take a page from Clarke's Childhood's End and make it real as they park giant spacecraft over the world's cities and proceed to blow them up. A ragtag bunch of refugees must rise up and fight the invaders. Candidate best suited for the crisis: McCain happening At the climax, President Pullman clambers into a fighter jet and joins an assault on the aliens. Well, we know who's got the edge there, don't we, even though he might be a little rusty after 40 or so years? The crisis forces the Prez to nuke Houston, so that's 34 electoral votes from Texas vaporized into shiny, shiny fallout. _ 4. The Movie: Fail Safe. fonda The President: Henry Fonda. The Crisis: Six Vindicator bombers are screeching their way into Russia. Having
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I guess it depends on where you are, Reece. In my neck of the woods, early voting meant as much as a six-hour wait, and the addition of lengthy walks to get to the polling places, because many of the locations wouldn't allow voters to park on site. I waited until today, drove up to within a hundred yards of the entrance (drove only because my mother was with me and couldn't walk the one block up the hill from our house to the polling place)), and waited about the hour and a half before I voting. Wish I'd paid more attention, but My Cousin Rachel is a really good read... -[ Received Mail Content ]-- Subject : Re: [scifinoir2] Obama Vs. McCain In 10 Sci-Fi Movies Date : Tue, 4 Nov 2008 21:17:20 + From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : SciFi2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Early voting must be nice! Sent via BlackBerry by ATamp;T -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:29:30 To: Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Obama Vs. McCain In 10 Sci-Fi Movies Voted early last Friday here in the ATL... -- Original message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anybody else at the polls yet? Sent via BlackBerry by ATamp;T From: Tracey de Morsella Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:50:37 -0800 To: ; 'Albert Fields'; ; CINQUE; 'Cleo'; ; ; ; 'Kai Pettaway'; ; ; 'Kera'; ; 'Michael Gordon'; ; ; 'Seku Brathwaite'; 'Valery Jean'; 'Wendell Theophilus Smith'; 'Whitney J Evans'; CC: ; 'Glenn Sigler'; ; ; 'paul demorsella'; 'Chris de Morsella'; Aradia \(Rae\) Corenti Subject: [scifinoir2] Obama Vs. McCain In 10 Sci-Fi Movies Obama Vs. McCain In 10 Sci-Fi Movies http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0amp;id=61799 My fellow Americans, science fiction has anticipated our current national dilemma: forever wars, economic collapse, mutant zombies running in the streets. Since we're already facing a bunch of science fictional scenarios made real, which candidate would best handle the real tests facing the nation: Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain? Change You Can Believe in is great, so long as abominations from the hollow earth aren't trying to change your very DNA, and putting Country First might not be enough when the whole damned species is threatened by lizard-faced extra-dimensional organ harvesters. Take the following scenarios from SF movies: 1. The Movie: Escape From New York. The President: Donald Pleasence. The Crisis: With all of Manhattan turned into a maximum-security federal prison, a Patty Hearst-like teenybopper Tania take-off terrorist seizes Air Force One and crashes it into Midtown, where the Prez is taken hostage by a gang of convicts led by the voice of Chef himself, Isaac Hayes! Candidate best suited for the crisis: Obama As a former community organizer, he's got a track record in difficult urban settings in which times are tough; even though Hayes' predecessor as the boss of New York, Rudy Giuliani, might diss it, this is valuable experience! And hey ... if you listen to certain talk-radio ranters, Obama really knows how to talk to domestic terrorists in really palsy-walsy terms! It might make it easier for Obama to get the New York State vote, but with 8 million votes in Manhattan negated (felons can't vote in New York State), those 31 electoral votes might get trimmed down some. 2. The Movie: Superman II. The President: E.G. Marshall. The Crisis: Phantom Zone escapees Ursa, Non and General Zod use their incredible superpowers to subdue the Planet Houston (OK ... Earth), raiding the White House and forcing a comically toupee'd president (whose rug makes Joe Biden's hair plugs look as natural as Fabio's mane) to kneel before Zod and swear fealty to the Kryptonian criminal. Candidate best suited for the crisis: McCain His Secure Borders policy would apply to Kryptonians, too (even though if he extended it to include Smallville, Kan., he might alienate Sen. Brownback and lose six electoral votes in the process). 'Sides, ... who wouldn't want to see a catfight between Ursa and Palin (under whose jurisdiction Superman's Fortress of Solitude would fall, assuming it's not on federal land)? 3. The Movie: Independence Day. The President: Bill Pullman. The Crisis: A bunch of really nasty and hostile aliens take a page from Clarke's Childhood's End and make it real as they park giant spacecraft over the world's cities and proceed to blow them up. A ragtag bunch of refugees must rise up and fight the invaders. Candidate best suited for the crisis: McCain At the climax, President Pullman clambers into a fighter jet and joins an assault on the aliens. Well, we know who's got the edge there, don't we, even though he might be a little rusty after 40 or so years? The crisis forces the Prez to nuke Houston, so that's 34 electoral votes from Texas vaporized into shiny, shiny fallout. 4. The Movie: Fail Safe. The President: Henry Fonda. The Crisis: Six
