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Recent trip to the Far East?

From the Wall Street Journal:

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson faces a sartorial problem partly due to his ever-fluctuating weight. He insists on buttoning his suit jacket, which often looks like it's about to burst open. "It's pretty obvious we don't have an image consultant," says spokesman Guillermo Meneses.

Republican hopeful Mike Huckabee had to replace his entire wardrobe after being diagnosed with diabetes in 2003 and shedding more than 100 pounds.

He now favors two handmade suits he purchased on a recent trip to the Far East. "Oh, maybe I wasn't supposed to say that,'' says spokeswoman Alice Stewart. "Buy American, you know.''

I hope this doesn't mean he's traveling with that strange Indian evangelist K.A. Paul again.

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Is God Mad at the Republican Party?

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Whoa. Whoa. Hold it right there. Buy American? Clothing? Where does Miss Alice shop? Seems to me clothing has to be handmade by Gramma to be made in the USA -- of imported fabric, though.
And Huck's recent trip to the Far East? When was this? Did we by chance pay for that little excursion? I'd guess yes.
Furthermore, just how has the man managed to churn out all the books? Did he get some pointers from some super prolific romance writer or something? Surely he hasn't taken up with some woman named Janet -- Dailey, that is.

"Republican hopeful Mike Huckabee had to replace his entire wardrobe after being diagnosed with diabetes in 2003 and shedding more than 100 pounds."

You can bet your sweet bippy Huck didn't spend any of his own money for his new wardrobe, just another bill for Jennings.

When Huck steps off that private jet in New York or California, (a jet that rushes live hearts to transplant recipients when it's not hauling him), he must cut quite a swath in his handmade suit pieced together with nimble oriental fingers. (I keep my custom made Hong Kong suit wrapped in plastic in my chest freezer when I'm not wearing it.)

Our ex-Gov...living like a rock star. That old hard drive crusher is having a sweet ride at the expense of others, of course, as usual, ad nauseum. He's carrying his message of BUY MY NEW BOOK to the hungering masses of DC, North Carolina, DC, Iowa, New Hampshire, DC and DC....(this is his schedule the last couple of weeks of March.)

Republicans can rave on, but Democrats can take a rest. Huckabee's plan doesn't involve ever holding elective office again. He's found a way to finance a new lifestyle of private jets, handmade suits and limos and the only work involved is being Mike Huckabee 24/7.

Could you' all please give my Hope For An Erection PAC 800 thousand dollars so I too can fly around the country in a private jet being me all day long? I promise to not call anyone a Banana Republic.....honest!

Like Alien Bert on Billy Crystal's old TV show Soap, we're living in Alien America today. Not a damn thing makes a lick of sense any more. A White House full of crooks, a war killing our kids for Exxon & Halliburton and for no other reason, a big bag of wind ex-Governor of a little state laying in 49th place jetting across the nation pretending he's a big deal....and the amazing thing is Alien America embraces Huck enough to allow this to happen.

I know I'm getting old and cranky, but by god it's not the crazy tattooed, pieced hip-hop kids that's scaring the crap out of me, it's well dressed white people who appear to have lost their minds over the last decade.

Cuba has more sense than to buy into a George W. Bush or a Mike W. Huckabee and we make fun of Cuba all the time. Take a look in the mirror.....Alien America kidnaps, spies, tortures and wages war, can't hold an honest election, can't find drowning black people in the gulf after a storm, can't provide clean hospitals for legless vets who gave up their body parts for Exxon and the Republican Party.

But thank you Allah that Arkansas can produce an ex-Baptist preacher, ex-Governor who shit all over us going out the door last January that is out there adding more noise to blur the picture a little more and produce only a good time and more wealth for himself.

Only in Alien America would that make sense. Pray damn it....we're in big trouble!

Damn, DBI, that ran close to a Vonnegut level (and he has always been right, in some sense). Tell me, when you see a mirror, do you think "leak"?

Oh, and doigotta, we did pay for Huck to go to the Far East last year, I believe. Supposed to have been car plant hunting on our behalf. At least he got a couple of good suits out of the trip. We didn't get any stinkin' car plant.

Speaking of suits: DBI, are you saving your Hong Kong suit to be buried in? How often do you wear it?

OK widj, you caught me in a lie. I only wish I had a handmade Hong Kong suit to wear when I'm in my casket. I don't own a suit and promise the next time I wear one will be in the casket, but it will probably have to be some suit (not brown please) from J.C. Penney's.

Years ago my old Ma ran across 4 or 5 handmade linen shirts made in Hong Kong in the 1930s. They were works of art! But alas they were several sizes too small for me. So I do have a secret desire to have what Huck has......and no...not Janet, thank you.

Ah, then not really a lie then, just an exaggeration--for effect. Nothing wrong with that, as long as you are not a government official.

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