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Nader

I spent today walking around town, killing time until 3 when I had to be at Bruno's for a photo shoot. Baffert's Gin, the stuff no one has ever called, ever, is putting out some kind of an ad in 7x7. 7x7 is the local version of Boston Magazine. It's one of those glossy 85% advertising magazines dedicated to the goings on about town. So Baffert's is featuring 4 bartenders and 4 cocktails in a one-page ad and I'm one of them for no reason that I can discern. Anyhoo I started in the Mission at the chiropractor and then walked on up to the Rosemunde sausage grill in the Lower Haight for lunch and then took the train to Amoeba to try to find this song by Gillian Welch. I didn't know the name of the song; I just had a vague memory of the first line. They rule at Amoeba. I went to the info desk and asked the girl, "I'm looking for this song by Gillian Welch that starts with the line . . .” She paged someone who then called her phone. She put me on the phone with him, I asked the guy the same thing I'd asked her. He sang the song to me then said "Meet me in Country." I walked down the stairs and he was waiting for me with a copy of the CD, used and everything. I bought it and walked back down to Bruno's from Amoeba satisfied that I'd gotten something done. Point being it was a nice day for walking and I did a bunch of it along the way experiencing a fair sampling of San Francisco's bumper stickers. Which brings me to the title of this here post.

We're overwhelmingly liberal out here in San Francisco, so there's lots of Kerry/Edwards stickers. Anti-Bush stickers are by far the most popular, my favorite being "Send Bush back to Mordor." There's also a spattering of Nader stickers. Now I used to agree with everything Nader said except, "Vote for me for President." Not only because there's no way in hell that man's ever going see the business end of the Oval Office. I didn't think he'd make a good president. We've had good x-lawyer presidents, John Adams, Abe Lincoln, etc. I'm thinking Edwards may become one of those successfull x-lawyer VP/Presidents in 8. But Nader's an ideologue, and even though I agree with most of his ideas I don't want an ideologue in office. Bush is also an ideologue, know what I mean? That was then, 2000, when I agreed with Nader, before 4 years of W. Now when I see a Nader sticker I want to jump up and down on the hood of the offending vehicle. I don't get as mad at the W stickers I see, it's the Nader supporters that really get me. Even disregarding his strange paranoia about Asian viruses, and his truly bizarre plan to repoliticize the masses by essentially telling them they should be more political, the man's not good for the country anymore. Nader's Raiders were great and now we have cool things like vehicle saftey regulations, thank you. Now get off the ballot and back in the courtroom where you can do some good. I'm not going to vandalize any VW's with offensive stickers. I just wish the people who own those cars would get in them, pick up their candidate, and drive off to Never Never Land where they belong.

posted by jts @ 5:30 PM