It's January, 2007. There's a Democrat in the White House. Who is it?

The US now has 1,870.000 troops deployed in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and West Africa. They are accompanied by total of 34 other nations with 10,000 to 700,000 troops each.

Tactical nuclear strikes have reduced the population significantly in the Occupied Regions, and petroleum resources are secure. Human rights groups report famine in the Clear Zones, but the Department of Media Responsibility refuses permission to publish, citing the failure of any group to produce photographic evidence. The Department recognizes that the ban on cameras or recording equipment in the Occupied Regions does not make it easy, but reminds the groups that the Administration has granted them permission to provide humanitarian aid to border camps in Pakistan, Iran and Lebanon. A decision for West Africa is still pending.

Although most foreign nationals (with the exception of 27 nations, most in Western Europe) are banned from entering the US, and US residents with ties to over 4 dozen nations have been moved to Protective Housing under the Department of Domestic Security (the new President changed the name his first week in office), this morning there has been another suicide bombing at a Wal-Mart in Minneapolis. The CEO of the company nervously offers his condolences to the families of the victims (He is new on the job, the previous CEO was tapped by the new administration to serve as Secretary of Consumer Goods).

DomSec has deployed a thousand officers in riot gear to put down a disturbance at a large hospital in Miami, sparked by a 20% rise in WellnessAmerica's indigent co-pay. At a press conference, the President expresses his regret over the cost of coverage, but reminds the public that everyone has health care now, and two new oil pipelines in the Territories have opened, a significant victory in the war on terror, and points out that the price of gasoline is now below 50 cents in some areas of the country.

There is controversy over the new Covenant Employment program. While critics say that the contract requires the employee to waive all legal rights and individual choice regarding housing, marriage or having children in exchange for the opportunity to live in a company-supplied dorm and work 70 hours a week for room and board, proponents point to the upturn in the economy afforded businesses who were losing the battle with the growing number of homeless. And, they add, Covenant Employees have job security, which is something a lot of wage earners don't have. A task force has been assigned to study the feasibility of incorporating at least some public school systems into the Covenant Program.

The President saves his best news for the end of the press conference. He has just been informed that a key sector of West Africa has been Cleared! This will mean an even greater drop in gas prices by midyear, and even better, more jobs for Americans!


Which Democrat won the 2004 election?

Disclaimer: I do not support any of the candidates.

but frankly I think there are other Countries that could and would step up to the plate before it got that bad.

Germany looked unbeatable in the 1930s too, but they were still taken down by a coalition of vastly inferior militaries. Including the US, since our military was almost militia like in 1941 rather than the organized force it is today. Granted, this time it would be far nastier due to the nuclear weapons involved, but I still think even a superpower can be defeated by a real coalition of militaries- even if it means throwing bodies at the superpower a la Russia in WWII.

I don't think the rest of the world will let this scenario actually happen. At least, I hope they wouldn't.

Glad to know I'll have a cellmate at Gitmo! :hi:

How about a year ago?

President Bush, after getting kicked out of the GOP for his immigration policies, record deficit, and overall alienation of every Republican in the country. Democrats take him in when Terry McAuliffe says "Its best for the party if we can claim a Democrat in the White House".

edit: typo

There's only one Democrat in the white house and it's the guy that tastes the president's food to make sure it's not poisoned.

kudos on a very creative post.

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No difference between Dean and Bush, Clark and Bush, Kerry and Bush...etc?

The Green diatribe has become tiresome - as it seems the Greens really are only interested in getting Republicans elected.

Hell, the Dem could be Lieberman and we'd still have it better than 4 more years of Bush.

All of this speculation has no grounds in reality. Take the most Conservative Democrat of late, Clinton, whom I know you don't like - and tell me exactly how did he erode away at our constitutional freedoms? Answer: He didn't. He may have made it easier for large corporations to make a buck, but there were no "Free Speech Zones", no FBI monitoring mosques, no "No Fly Lists." Nothing.

So don't give me that Nader crap - The man should feel proud he did his part to destroy America.

I am having a similar lack of luck locating any post of mine that makes any reference to Ralph Nader.

If my disclaimer statement was unclear, let me walk you through it:

"I do not support any of the candidates" means that as an individual, a living organism referred to as "I" in the above sentence in compliance with the English convention of personal pronoun use in the nominative case, do not support, meaning that support is something that "I" do not do, as a noun, "support" is not on the list of things that I do, any of the candidates, "any" meaning not one, none, and "candidate" meaning any individual living organism who is seeking the office of President, regardless of party affiliation.

You do make a very good point about the minimal differences in positions of most of them, though, but I think that you fail to give several of them their due credit for some very clever rewording of the status quo.

But I think Absinthe's point may be that you seem to be trying to poison the well against any of the Democratic candidates by making up a lot of atrocities and catastrophes and pin them on "a Democrat in the White House in 2007." Unless there is a specific answer to this riddle and you're really only trying to smear one Democratic candidate by making all this up.

with some very visible cosmetic adjustments.

That is compatible with the stated positions of all of the candidates, each of whom has many very sincere and ardent supporters.

Why would that be a smear?

He was Bush's running mate in 2004 after Dick Cheney had a fatal heart attack. Bush invited Lieberman to become the VP in a "national unity ticket" to fight the war on terrorism.

Lieberman became President in 2006 after Bush choked to death on a pretzel while on a drunken stupor.

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Not even Kerry would support the PNAC agenda to that extent :scared:

I give up

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