Pros and Cons of the Top 20 Democratic Presidential Candidates.

McSweeney's Internet Tendency:

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Pros and Cons of the Top 20 Democratic Presidential Candidates: OPTIMUS PRIME

Pro: Size; power; ability to emit short-range optic blasts.

Con: Potential attack ad: "Sometimes Optimus Prime is a robot, other times a truck. Which is it, Mr. Prime? America deserves a leader that doesn't transform whenever it's convenient."

Comments

[Sean]

With Optimus Prime as president, we wouldn't have to spend half a trillion a year on defense...

[Jonathan W. King]

John Moe also did the Republican candidates:

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2007/5/2moe.html

Optimus Prime could potentially have problems in the general if he had to face

ROBOTIC SUPER BEES

Pro: Programmed mandate to destroy enemies with unrelenting deadly force could be an advantage in contentious general-election fight and when facing down hostile nations or other bees.

Con: Murderous instinct less advantageous in delicate diplomatic negotiations and the parsing of complex tariff issues.

[Robert Waldmann]

What I can't figure out is if this tendency is or is not a single person. The style of each post is identical so it must be one person using different handles and calling him/her self a tendency. On the other hand, no but no one could be that creative.

I strongly recomment planned parenthoods plans c-g for Iraq
www.mcsweeneys.net/2007/4/13wayne.html
but really you can't miss.

Also now that I have pretended I am not just link begging, I have my handicapping of the Iraqi Presidential elections over at my blog.

[Bruce Moomaw]

Actually, what worries me is the possibility that somone might take seriously McSweeney's suggestion that "You" (e.g., "We") should be the nominee. Given the public's obsession with direct democracy, and with the Superiority Of Its Judgment Compared To Those Awful Politicians, that has virtually ruined California, this is a genuine possibility.