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How would Barack Obama and John McCain play in Turkey, Texas?

Given the scheduling motif adopted by Barack Obama's presidential campaign, we fully expect the candidate to soon deliver a speech decrying U.S. dependence on foreign oil in ... Energy, Ill.

That would be followed with an elaboration on his call for lower middle-class taxes in Bonanza, Colo. Then, he'll want to discuss national security matters in Protection, Kan.

And as the time for his vice presidential pick nears, we'll be watching to see whether he tips his hand with a stop on Richardson Bay, Calif. (or, for that matter, in Clinton, Iowa, Webb, N.Y., or Nunn, Colo.).

Our conjecture is inspired, of course, by Obama's Friday appearance in Unity, N.H., to stress his new-found harmony with Hillary Clinton and his speech on patriotism today in Independence, Mo.

It's an attention-getting schtick, though easily overdone. In fact, Obama's campaign probably would be well advised to give it a rest.

Still, as always, we invite our readers to join in and offer suggestions for future venues for Obama or John McCain where name and theme would work hand-in-glove.

This is for sure: If and when they reach an agreement on joint town hall appearances, one site certainly needs to be Truth or Consequences, N.M.

At the risk of beating a dead horse, we'll chime in with a few places for the rivals to studiously avoid.

One, in fact, would be Dead Horse, Alaska. The towns of Boring -- one in Maryland, another in Oregon -- don't figure to show up on their itineraries, either. Same with Turkey, Texas.

Enough; time for us to give it a rest.

-- Don Frederick

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I would love to see Obama or McCain on the Larry King Live show, saying, "Arabs, get the price of oil back to $20 a barrel, and Oil companies... get the price of gas back to
98c a gallon, or I will subsdiize the oil industry."

Hey, Chavez had the balls to do it and make it stick. No wonder the pols hate him. He actually does something for the little guy.

Obama is going to be in Fargo on Thursday. We all know about Fargo. Maybe he could also visit Devil's Lake.

What about Hell, Michigan?

Here's some venues that would be more appropriate for Obama: Flipping, W.Va.; Reverse, Idaho; Liberal, Kansas . For McCain: Patriot, Ohio.

If the Republicans want to trot out an attack that has been rather effective in the past, they can suggest that Obama should do a speech in Liberal, Kansas.

And neither candidate wants to wind up in Tombstone, Arizona.

Obama is there because of money donated by overzealous left-wing bank accounts and liberal, we'll tell-ya-what-we-think-you need-to-hear, talking-heads media. Obama should be a talk show host, NOT President of these United States!!

All that money would have been better invested finding a cure for cancer...not the cause!!

Arm wrastling match on national TV! That's what I want to see. Oy!

with the lies republicans feel compelled to spout,
they must really be scared of obama.
is a candidate not in the pockets of
the usual republican cronies that objectionable?
i would rather have a president who might actually care about real people
than 4 more years of criminal behavior
highlighted by ideaology and outright lies
told over and over 'til YOU believe them.
mcbush is GW without the"village idiot" IQ
and he actually showed up for his military service

Obama would draw big crowds in Teheran,Iran,Havana,
Cuba,Pyong Yang,North Korea and at the same time give
us a chance to recuperate from Obama fatigue here in the good old USA. Why not invite Mouamar Khadafi to set
up his tent close to the lake in Chicago ? Khadafi is one
good camel trader and could teach that trade to Barack
so he has a job after he comes in a distant second like
that other flip-flopper Kerry.

How about Crappo, MD or Last Chance, CO for McCain

There's no such town as Richardson Bay, Calif. Richardson Bay is a body of water near Mill Valley, Calif. and Sausalito, Calif., but no town of that name exists.

Hey, dick bohanon :
It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better languages than the unlearned; but still it is nonsense.

To Hussein Obama supporters:

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Here comes the orator! With his flood of words and his drop of reason.

A great talker may be no fool but one that relies on him is.

Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.

He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.

Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

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