A new political day is dawning. I see the sun rising on the horizon, and damn if it doesn't look like an Obama logo.
Say hello to hope and change. Say goodbye to all that.
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Apart from the tears of joy, the embraces, the high-fives and fist jabs, the champagne, the celebrations and the Sheer Relief Sex (I predict a baby boom 9 months from today), we need other creative ways to cast off the demons that have plagued U.S. politics for decades.
As Josh Marshall wrote on Saturday, November 01, 2008
I hope the result of the election can be a rebuke, a closing of the book on McCainism and the moral filth it has come to represent.
We need a symbolic way to say "screw you" to Karl Rove, his minions, and everything that they’ve wrought: war, economic collapse, massive inequalities of wealth, cultural divides.
It makes me want to throw a few rotten tomatoes.
Yes, folks, the lowly tomato has healing properties.
Especially when it is coupled with this:
A pillory: the late, lamented New England form of punishment.
Now you’re getting the picture.
My significant other and I had this idea 10 days ago. Wouldn’t it be satisfying to put Karl Rove in a pillory and throw rotten tomatoes at him? If not throwing tomatoes at Rove himself (I doubt Obama would approve), then the idea of Rovian politics and all the slime it entails.
Go ahead. Picture yourself doing it. Imagine "Rove" in a pillory. Watch your imaginary self pick up that squishy tomato.
You know just how it would feel, don’t you?
You know how hard you’d hurl that thing, don’t you?
You’d want to hurl more than one, knowing that with every throw (as with every vote for Obama), Rovian politics is getting banished from this commonwealth.
Here’s my proposal: Let’s do it – in a video game format. And better yet: let’s make money for a good cause while doing it!
The game would show a Rove caricature/cartoon in a pillory. For $1, players could throw 1 tomato. For $5, players could throw a dozen tomatoes. For $10, players could dump a truckload of rotten tomatoes over Rove’s sorry head.
Proceeds could go to our favorite causes: MoveOn, AIDS prevention, cancer research, environmental groups, etc. We’d need to decide our priorities as a community.
The Problem: neither my SO nor I have the technical ability to produce a video game.
The Solution: someone here undoubtedly can. The skills and talent on this site never cease to amaze me.
So. . . is anyone game? Comments, suggestions, improvements are welcome!