Okay, just sue me. I love Prince Harry. He understands that public life is superficial and makes sure to ridicule everyone's fetish for image over truth. American politicians could learn a lot from Harry's swagger.
Clearly, Harry knows who writes the checks for his lifestyle and doesn't care if the rest of us know it as well. The American politician seems to think that we don't realize who is putting them up to spew forth their nonsense. The UK may own Harry, but he isn't anyone's puppet. That's why people like him. No one likes people who pretend to empathize with the peons they scorn. So I will continue my trend of watching Harry's costumes and ignoring the farce called the American presidential elections.
Do the world some good, folks. Write in Prince Harry on November 6. Better yet, write in Angry Birds or Ping Pong Paddle. Feel free to share your choices. And you can get your angry birds hat right here.
That's awesome! Humbleness is very hard to find these days.
ReplyDeleteI might vote for the candidate Nonofthe Above..
ReplyDeleteWell, Foam, one could argue that voting for Obama or Romney is a big None of the Above, or maybe zero would be the better word.
ReplyDeleteDeb, maybe it's time to give the colonies back to the Brits, but they have enough problems.
That's a great hat. And yes, Prince Harry is quite a character.
ReplyDeleteIts hard to fault a man who can pull off that headgear. But how'd this happen? I thought he was the ugly sister.
ReplyDelete40 years Susan, that is how many years I've gone and have never sat out a vote. It would be god damn easy this Nov. I will not write in Harry but I don't know which way I will go for sure yet--In my mind this one is going to be more about policy and SCOTUS appointments. If Romney comes out with Ryan as his second, nope no way, I ain't living through another figurehead president with the vice-president as head of government. Beyond that I am still looking at and doing my own the research.
ReplyDeleteI will say this though they don't have to make government documents so tedious and boring to read.
IcyHighs: Welcome to Susan Wrote Here. I'm trying to be a bit more consistent in my posting. Personally, I dig both princes. I used to think that William was uptight, but he is more reserved, and he shares Harry's anger and disgust with the whole papparazi bs, but he is better at disregarding it in public. William used to have a lot of anger issues, stemming from his mother's death. Harry acted out his anger, but William had to sit on it because he's the future king and all that. I'm not a big royal spotter, but I like these guys, and I would be happy for them to come to my next drinking party with all their mates.
ReplyDeleteRoxanne: Hey, buddy! I appreciate Harry's hat as well. I got into headgear last winter, shifting from bear to rabbit to raccoon to another one--something white. Do you know those hats? They have long ears that you can also use as mittens. (This isn't real fur, folks--not a meat eater.)
WM: Bro, I hear you. I've never sat out an election either, and I do plan to exercise my right to vote. But I am what is now known as the INDEPENDENT, so I expect a lot of ass kissing from the Romney and Obama camp. And I will not know for whom I will vote until I walk into that ffffing booth. And I'm not talking about Romney or Obama, but anybody. (Well, I can't see myself ever voting for Romney.) Both parties suck, both parties are owned by big ass moolah and both parties are guilty of betraying the American people. So what does one do? I say write in a name; the more who do it, the bigger the protest. Basically we are saying: hey, I'm not apathetic about voting, I'm apathetic about the choices. But I still got this voting thing going on, so this is my way of telling you all that there is a better way that voting against french fries made with duck fat or lard. It's still fried food that will clog your arteries until kingdom comes.
Well, most people believe Harry's father wasn't Charles, so maybe he's got some zip to his chromosomes.
DeleteNot knowing who to vote for makes me think of David Sedaris's piece about knowing why people would vote for Bush or vote for Gore, but not being able to understand the "undecided" vote: "it's like going into the restaurant, and not being able to decide between the chicken marsala or the platter of shit with ground glass in it."
Harry can afford to be independent, he isn't heir apparent. William on the other hand, has to start looking and acting "kingly". But to me, royalty of any sort, is nothing but BS. Can you imagine yourself bowing and saying things like Your Highness or Your Grace? At least here we can actually call our royalty a prick.
ReplyDeleteAlright, third time around with this frigging word ID thingy
Murr: Welcome! And what? I didn't know that? OMG. Who's daddy then, that guy that Princess Di was fooling around with? Wow. Well, good for Harry--no wonder he's so damn cool, no Charles chromosomes. I didn't know that joke by David Sendaris--that's good. It is even more applicable to 2004 when we had to choose between Kerry, Romney's role model and Bush. I voted for that ass, and I've never quite got over that experience of knowing I voted for someone I despised, because the other candidate seemed so much worse. I did support Obama in 2008 until the bailout in which he was quite instrumental, and I wanted to sit out the election, but my inner whore made me show up and vote--I had campaigned for him, and I also wanted my son to come into the voting booth and watch the voting process. But in 2010, I wrote in lots of people for the state election, except for the senate candidate--I actually liked that guy.
ReplyDeleteMr. C--should I dump the word v thing? I forgot I had it. I used to allow anonymous comments for friends who didn't have a google account, but then some of the haters who remember me from CV would write all this nonsense, and I didn't want them to have a forum--You Tube is the venue for writing trollish tales. Sure, here we can call our royalty a prick, but watch out if they want to sue you for discrimination, character defamation, slander, libel...free speech is all about the Benjamins and hyper-sensitivity. I'm a bit cynical about free speech after I watched the FB fiasco with my friend.
yeah, nothing says 'I'm a cute kid' like wearing a Nazi Uniform to a party..I like him too, but think he's not to smart sometimes.
ReplyDeleteYG: He may have been celebrating the memory of his great great uncle, the Duke of WIndsor who married W. Simpson for love and dumped kinging. He had Nazi affiliations.
ReplyDeleteIn terms of the public, it was a dumb thing to do--agreed. But I don't think he has Nazi sympathies--he was young and out of touch.