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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Good point James.  But, What is the deal with the year 2012.  I keep seeing 
references, but the only thing I know is that the Mayan's thought it was the 
'end date' .  There are not many practicing Mayans? .....bobford


--- On Fri, 10/24/08, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:

> From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> Subject: [Homestead] Zephod Obamabrox for President!
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 9:41 AM
> > >When Obama turns this country into a complete
> disaster, everyone will make 
> > excuses.  The fact is, unless he is completely
> incompetent, there is now way 
> > that he shouldn't be able to safely ask in four
> years "are you better off 
> > today, than you were four years ago".  
> 
> Essentially this is true, Bob, but the 'here's
> where we were when I took 
> office and here's where we are now' is weak in
> people's minds compared to "For the 
> last four years while YOU have been president, I have
> suffered."  As we wend 
> our way to the prophetic year 2012, there are going to be
> some hard knocks for 
> a lot of folks.  If after four years people have gone
> through economic hell, 
> they are not going to fine analyze who was the cause of it,
> only who was 
> president and didn't (couldn't) fix it.
> 
> This is unfortunate for Obama since 95% of what is going on
> is not anything 
> the Prez is going to be able to do anything about. 
> It's just got to run its 
> course.
> 
> Recall the late (and great) Douglas Adams' charater
> Zephod Beeblebrox who was 
> elected President of the Galaxy because his behavior was so
> outrageous that 
> it would distract from what was really going on and who was
> really running the 
> galaxy.  Bush was moderately successful at this, but times
> are harder now and 
> if we can get enough people to chant glassy-eyed
> "Change the changes we are 
> changing about the way we are changing" then perhaps
> they will not be as prone 
> to look the financial tsunami headed their way straight in
> the eye.
> 
> Obamabrox will soon use the White House pulpit to give us
> his own version of, 
> "Freeow!  Belgium, man, I mean, I'm one really
> cool frood!"
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