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Welcome to the new Zeitgeist.
To quote Mo Udall, liberal democratic congressman who lost in the primaries to Jimmy Carter:
The People have spoken. The Bastards.
And to start this new dawn of European style politics in the UK, let me play you the hymn to the Zeitgeist. Called – unsurprisingly – ‘Zeitgeist”, by the ever so spiffing ‘Hamburger Arroganz‘.
You must be fucking kidding me!
The Antichrist?
While doing the dishes (definitely a man’s job in this household. By choice!) I listened to Matt Frei’s excellent ‘Americana‘, a weekly collection of odd stories from that most entertaining of all showbiz variants: American politics. After Newt Gingrich pretty much confirmed that he will be standing for president in 2010, Frei then proceeded to interview domestic security guru Richard Clarke, who astonished me with the little snippet that according to a Harris Poll 24% of Republicans believe that Barack Obama is the ‘Antichrist‘.
Gosh.
I don’t know what’s worse about this factoid, the amount of rabid religiosity this displays or the sheer stupidity. With Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement gaining momentum, Newt Gingrich looks positively desirable as the next republican candidate.
As someone who lived through the beginnings of his ‘Contract with America’ I never thought I would ever write this.
Pope themed Condoms?
As the poor young civil servant responsible for that particular memo is now probably languishing in suspension hell and is preparing for life outside the civil service, it might be worthwhile to spin this a bit further. If the pope was going to be invited to bless ‘Benedict themed condoms’ and celebrate a gay marriage, then other (and former) heads of state could just as well have to do a bit of international community service based on their previous sins when visiting Britain. Let’s see
Evict Robert Mugabe in the middle of the night from his hotel room.
Make Kim Yong Ill listen to the BBC World Service for 24 hours.
Let George Bush open a new Centre for Stem Cell Research.
Let Helmut Kohl eat Haggis.
Silvio Berlusconi could be shut in a room full of journalists from the Economist
..and Tony Blair could lend his name to a treatment unit for soldiers with post traumatic stress disorder.
One can only hope that that young civil servant’s landing on the job market will be soft.
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