Arlen Specter Tired Of This Crap

I just want to find Jessica Griffin right now and thank her for this photo in today’s paper (and currently on the front of Philly.com). There’s John McCain and Sarah Palin, apparently doing a cheerleader routine. (Either that, or Palin doesn’t know how to signal touchdown.) Then there’s ol’ Arlen Specter, the only man in America older than John McCain, looking like he just wants to go home and bitch about politics for a while. I can only imagine his thoughts. “I’ve been a politician since the Depression and she gets to be vice president because she hunted a few moose?”

Or maybe he just wants to get this over with so everyone’s Facebook status messages go back to being regular annoying instead of 2008 election annoying.

Update: Oh, I almost forgot, Sen. Specter even appeared much more gracious when he had to deal with a question about the North American Union and the new “amero” currency. I’m going to print this photo out and hang it on my wall.

Arlen Specter Has To Deal With This Shit Every Day

Who are the only people who will show up to a town hall meeting in York with Sen. Arlen Specter? Simple: Conspiracy theorists and jaded retirees. It must be some sort of cosmic retribution that Specter has to listen to 15 questions of this crap after a life in politics. Actually, I think this is what Arlen Specter’s hell would be like.

Yesterday, Specter fended a question from an old woman about the North American Union, which will apparently combine the U.S., Mexico and Canada and give us one currency, the amero. (Why wouldn’t they just call it the dollar? Weird.) Specter responds, though, with the kinds of tough answers a politician has to give to his constituents every day.

“It’s not gonna happen. We’re not gonna have a union with Mexico and Canada, we’re gonna stick with the good ol’ United States of America.”

I can’t imagine Specter wants to deal with another 6 years of this come 2010, but he is an old white man. Zombie Specter/Zombie Barbaro for president in 2016!