Hey Tommy!

In Paul's article below your post about Rahm Emanuel, you chimed in and claimed to have voted for John McCain. If you truly voted for McCain, and I highly doubt you did, I know it wasn't the Bradley Effect. You're no racist. In fact, you're a social liberal no matter what you tell your colleagues at "The New Editor" headquarters. No. If you truly voted for McCain, which I doubt you did, it was most certainly the Comisky Effect. You'd have no problem telling a pollster that you'd vote for an African American but once you're in the voting booth you might have problems pulling the lever for a White Sox fan. If that was the case, I will assume you voted for Ralph Nader (again) or even that goofy little twerp, Bob Barr, who actually has started to sound sane when he appears on TV these days.

Admit it, Tommy, you voted for Obama. I know you're still pissed that the Cubs got knocked out of the playoffs but there's no way you would vote for a ticket with Sarah Palin on it. You'll put catsup on a Chicago hotdog (you sick jagoff) but there's no way you're voting for an airheaded sportscaster-turned-politician who doesn't even know what the job of vice president entails. You haven't sucked down enough Old Style to kill that many braincells yet.

Obama got within ten or eleven points of McCain in Texas. I don't think Gore or Kerry got within thirty points of Bush in 2000 or 2004. So how did that happen? Sure, recent new voter registration had something to do with that, but new democratic voter registration was high in Texas in 2004 and it didn't help Kerry one bit. Some of you guys were voting for Obama, I'm sure of it. I think it was the Reverse Bradley Effect; Texas Republicans were able to vote for an African American in the privacy of the voting booth but couldn't bring themselves to admit it to a pollster. How else can you explain Obama's strong showing in a state I left four years ago because two out of every three people were nuts?

I like yours and Paul's gracious sentiments for Obama. I even learned a new word: "exclamate". Anyway, there might be hope for you guys after all. I'm not so sure about some of your audience who will certainly continue to rave about how Obama is a radical-Muslim-terrorist-Black-Separatist-Marxist who hates America and wants to take all your money and give it to the welfare mothers. This guy was endorsed by Colin Powell, George Will, Chris Buckley and a host of other intellectual conservatives (if there exists such a thing) and in his concession speech, even John McCain said Obama was a great American that loves his country and is worthy of the office. Would John McCain say that about a terrorist or Marxist?

I almost cried last night as I watched the election unfold in Grant Park on CNN. I wish I could have been there. I know you felt the same way too. Too bad Studs Terkel couldn't hang on a few more days to see it.

Ah well, it's all over now and baseball season is around the corner. New Cubs slogan: Yes, We Can!

Write some time and let me know how you're doing.

Pura Vida,
m

I know you too well. You can't fool me. It was the Reverse Bradley Effect.

Besides, anyone who puts catsup on a hotdog has socialist tendencies. You know you want to get your catsup stained hands on Joe the Plumber's hard earned redistributed cash and buy cigarettes and booze.

And you want to kick that dumb, fat, drunk, redneck clown, Hank Williams Jr, in the nuts just as much as I do every time he opens his pie hole.

Pura Vida, my friend,
m

It's actually illegal in Cook County for catsup to come in contact with a red hot. Tommy has been kicked out of some of the finest dining establishments in the city; Wolfy's, Superdawg, Jimmy's, Fluky's. They have a picture of him taped to the wall next to the cash register and they lock up the catsup when comes in the place.

Now, Tommy was from the North Shore suburbs and how badly those people might defile a hotdog in the privacy of their own home is not known. We can only imagine.

Here's more info on Chicago Hotdogs:
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Chicago-Hot-Dog

By the way, Obama was elected three days ago and I still haven't received my welfare check. Please don't tell me I'm gonna have to get a job. Joe the Plumber got us all excited about the socialism...I was getting ready to get my piece of Joe's wealth, now it looks like he was full of it. What a fake.

Hey Tommy, I'm hungry. Can you email me an Italian Beef and a couple of hotdogs. No catsup.

Pura Vida,
m