Politics

I worked a little yesterday on a silly picture of one of the presidential contenders, "Barack Obambam," as he may come to be known after I post the picture and millions of people lol and link back to me.

I think it's fitting in two ways. Before those two ways is just the fact it sounds funny and it's catchy. Anyone who doesn't want him to be president will easily remember it because it's catchy and derogatory at the same time.

• First reason: he's young and inexperienced, much like the baby Bam-bam.
• Second, he's got a big machine behind him, symbolized by Bam-bam's club. He has a force behind him that seems disproportionate to the amount of strength he should have. I take issue with the machine behind him. I think someone looked him over and said he would make a good show pony, how much does he cost?

It's like almost any industry in our free market society. Take movies for example. The better the market appeal, the more investment will be made in a movie, and if there's investment and market appeal, you can be sure the promoters are out in force promoting everywhere they can.

I'm annoyed by this senator because everywhere he goes, everything he does, there's a newspaper article about him. He gets much more coverage than the average senator especially for a first timer.

It's no surprise to me that he's running for president. It's a long shot, but at this point someone must have run the numbers and determined that there's enough margin of success to go ahead down that path.