brand new funky president

The good news for the United States - after January 20, George Bush will no longer be President. The bad news - he leaves behind a nation in tatters. The prize for whoever wins this Tuesday's election - the right to wrestle with a $11,000,000,000,000 budget deficit, the withdrawal of ground troops out of Iraq, shutting down Guantanamo Bay, all while seriously dealing with energy issues and implementing true immigration reform.

Outside of that, one thing for sure - we're going to be seeing a whole new world come November 5th. For the first time in years, I'm looking forward to it.

"Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license." - Mark Twain

"Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country." - Ambrose Bierce

"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry." - T.S. Eliot

"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right." - Henry Louis Mencken

"It makes no difference who you vote for; the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people." - Gore Vidal

"Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom." - Friedrich August Hayek

"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman

"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor." - James Russell Lowell

"Voters quickly forget what a man says." - Richard M. Nixon

"Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against." - W.C. Fields

"A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected." - Carl Sandburg

"Our elections are free; it's in the results where eventually we pay." - Bill Stern

YouTube: Homer Simpson Tries To Vote

X: The New World - 5MB

James Brown: Funky President (People It's Bad) - 6MB

Cream: Politician - 7MB

Radiohead: Electioneering - 6MB

Louis Jordan: Jordan For President - 3MB

Slow Children: President Am I - 5MB

The National: Mr. November - 6MB

The Temptations: Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today) - 7MB

Parliament: Chocolate City - 7MB


Ted over at Boogie Woogie Flu has more music for you to vote by as does Chris at Locust St. As they say - vote early and often!