Hmm, right here at http://change.gov/americaserves it sez:

Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year.

Is that a trick, somehow disqualified, or do you need to get a-snackin?

(The wingers are going apeshit over this btw, e.g. Future WNOTW Tuccile )

I accept your offer in the spirit of the bipartisanship and high jocularity in which it is tendered. I think your hat will be safe, as I have my doubts that President Obama and his Congressional minders compatriots will do any of those things.

But let us be positive. To make a bet that America will not be rendered in the manner of a Hieronymous Bosch painting is all well and good, but let’s consider goals worth of these historic times.

Therefore, I make the following counter-offer: If at the end of Obama’s presidency, any of the following things have happened:

1. The institution of a national health care system, which makes health care less, not more, difficult to get.

2. The raising of taxes and/or cutting of total federal government outlays in order to decrease the deficit and national debt, so that the latter is smaller in real dollar terms at the end of Obama’s tenure than it was at the beginning.

3. The capture of Osama Bin Laden (in the unlikely event that he is uncovered in the remaining months of the Bush Administration, we will call this one off).

4. A federal investigation in to alleges of multiple voting in this most recent election, and/or a serious federal reform of election laws or practices.

5. The construction of any new nuclear power plants down wind of a Greenpeace member or wind farms in the sight line of a beach frequented by anyone whose last name rhymes with Fennedy.

6. Any kind of appreciable decrease in the amount of oil we import from abroad.

Then you may send the hat to me, postage paid, and I will not eat it (wrong kind of fiber for my digestion, methinks), but I will put it on, with a note that says “I AM A RETARD” safety pinned over the oh-so-badass OBEY logo, and take a picture of myself. I will then send the hat (after being washed free of KKKonservative KKKooties) and the picture back to you.

If, on the other hand, none of those things will happen. You can keep the hat and take a similar picture and post it here at Sadly, No!

We’ll settle up in January 2013 or 2017, as the Great Game plays out.

Seriously, a year of service (Americorps or Peacecorps or whatever) would not be a bad thing.

The classics, you know.

and, of course, Teh Buttocks. BUTTOCKS I SAY!!

boy that felt good.

OMG, is THAT what the big “reveal” turned out to be? I waded through 560 comments looking for it. I mean, I saw that post, but …. seriously? That was what was supposed to make 53% of the population fall down, stricken with horror and regret at what they had wrought?

For serious?

Ooh, ooh…do I get a vote? ‘Cause I’d totally vote for Jonah Goldberg’s crusty boxers.

Hey…this voting thing could just catch on!

It’s more of a Mexican Hat Dance on the roaches.

“It is not going to happen, liberals. Your echo chamber is reverberating now with your shouts of victory before you’ve won a single state. I almost feel badly for you, because when McCain wins, your astonishment will be overwhelming. I say “almost” because your ideology is nasty, anti-free speech, and absolutist, and every decent person will sigh in relief when it goes down to defeat once more.

Here is how it will go down next week. First, the results from Virginia and North Carolina will come in, and they’ll be declared for McCain. You’ll be disappointed, but “no big deal, change can’t come overnight” will be your comment. Florida will go red, and a little nervousness will creep in. The usual suspects will fall into the usual categories. As the night drags on, Ohio, Colorado, and (much to your horror) Pennsylvania will be too close to call.

My advice at this point to you will be to go to bed. You will wake up to a McCain presidency and the Great Liberal Freakout will be on.

Bookmark this, liberals, as this is exactly how it is going to go down. You will be wonder how the hell I was able to call this.”

Because as I recall, someone not too far away actually spent the entire day being immature, evasive, abusive and then finally just downright pathetic, as after building up for a “surprise” all day, “The Truth” then just thought we’d all be completely defeated by a comparison to Jimmy Carter. A man who, for all his Presidential failings, is now more liked than George W. Bush will ever be…

Weak to the capital SAUCE Truth. Seriously, you’ll do your mental health far more good if you try and actually gain the qualities you claim to have, rather than endlessly obsessively making a fool of yourself at a blog you hate, because venting your demons to your degree just makes them stronger you know… your hate is a parasite, eating you up from the inside, and soon there’ll be nothing left of you to save, just that vile gnawing worm that hollowed you out

“….I think those people are under constant surveillance already. I would assume so, at least with all the fuzz about domestic terrorists during campaigning….”

First, I think Obama is going to be okay. But second, we are still enduring the administration that said la-di-dah about “Bin Laden Determined To Strike In U.S.”. So it’s hard for me to assume anything. Department of Homeland Security whatever – are the agencies communicating any better now? I am asking because I don’t know. As Rachel would say, Talk Me Down.