Political Death Note

[Lord Bitememan]

Let's just say you're walking along and happen to find a Death Note sitting on the ground (for those of you unfamiliar with the Anime, Wikipedia has a lovely article on it). What political and global figures do you take out?

Mine:
Markos Moulitsas
George Soros
Osama Bin Laden
Ayman Al-Zawahiri
Vladimir Putin
Ismail Haniyeh
Al Franken  

[Nyxs_Ace]

hmmm.... just political or personal threats?
if i were to take out sum it would be
the speeker of the house
joe biden
Barack Obama
and all the other retared democrats that try to pin all the bull crap on republican, im sick of the corruption, heck ied probley target sum of the republican california senators.... stupid betrayers...  

[Rainbowfied Mouse]

Rosie O'Donnel... nuff said.  

[stareyed_in_LA]

I don't know much about Death Note, other than the fact that all the Twilight fans I know are obsessed with Death Note as well.

For the chopping block:
Any elected jack--- official in my homestate of California who just loves to jack up taxes and piss off the residents.  

[Latopazora]

Palosi
Barbara Boxer
Biden
the lunatic running Iran
Anyone running the drug cartels in Mexico  

[DanskiWolf]

Kevin Rudd
Mahmoud Ahmedinejad
Ismail Haniyeh
Raoul Castro
Hugo Chavez  

[Lord Bitememan]

I see that grouping, Danski, and can only conclude how lowly you really think of Rudd. wink  

[DanskiWolf]

He went from "economic conservative" to "social democrat" who squandered our budget surplus and is putting us billions and billions of dollars into debt.

And Australians are still stupid enough to vote for Labor despite this happening every single time those quasi-socialist b*stards are in power. And guess what, Rudd will easily win the next election. God help us.  

[stareyed_in_LA]

DanskiWolf

He went from "economic conservative" to "social democrat" who squandered our budget surplus and is putting us billions and billions of dollars into debt.

And Australians are still stupid enough to vote for Labor despite this happening every single time those quasi-socialist b*stards are in power. And guess what, Rudd will easily win the next election. God help us.

And I thought things were bad here in California.  

[Lord Bitememan]

It's too bad the voters wouldn't weigh him objectively. Of course, the voters have never been a group accused of paying too much attention to government.

Me, though, I'd reserve my entries for the truly pernicious. Voters can make a man like Rudd go away once and for all. At least, they have the option.  

[DanskiWolf]

The trade unions will, like they did in 2007, run scare campaigns that suggest a Coalition government would give more power to evil fatcat bosses to fire you. And everyone will fall for it once more. Never mind that we had a $20 billion surplus under a Coalition government and that by next year we're projected to be $200 billion in debt.

The fact that the Coaliton isn't 10 points ahead in the opinion polls (they're trailing by 10 or so points, while Malcolm Turnbull has a preferred PM rating about of about 40 points BEHIND Kevin Rudd) shows:

A. The sorry state of the Liberal Party.

B. The amazing ignorance of your average voter.  

[Lord Bitememan]

Oh I wasn't campaigning for Rudd, mind you. From the position of the US my sole interest is that the leadership in Australia is sufficiently friendly to the US, and all I've read about Rudd suggests that he is. The rest is for Australians to sort out. I was merely suggesting that on my Death Note, I would target the willfully destructive and pernicious, not those who err in incompetance but with better intentions, or those easily disposed of by the mechanisms provided. Rudd, by your description, strikes me more as hapless than pernicious. To group him as you have almost seems to elevate his ineptitude to a form of willful and destructive evil. I think he's more representative of a certain rut in Australian society than he is any manner of singular evil.  

[Twizzle Dizzle Red]

wth? Take them all out. Clean slate, clean beginning.  

[Lord Bitememan]

The world is neither so large that it can tolerate the very worst of them, nor so small that we can't tolerate the most benign. Your thinking, Lily, is reductive.