The Vote

This election has worn me out, brother. It's been going on since what? 2005? There's no way in hell there can still be one undecided voter left in America. And if there is, that person is clearly unstable and maybe shouldn't be voting or even walking around among normal people anyway. Whether you're a supporter of McBama or O'Cain, seriously, enough is enough. There's got to be a better way to pick a president.

So I'm glad that at Irish Fest, we transition from prez to prez with ease, no muss, no fuss. Our current VP, Ed Follis, will assume the presidency on January 1st. His VP, to be voted on soon by our board will do the same thing a year later. Our current president Ed Scanlon will be going to live on a sunny farm, with miles of green fields where there'll be lots of other ex-presidents for him to play with and all the bber and barbeque he wants. No, kids we can't go visit him.

It wasn't always so organized though. We once had a president who served three consecutive years after agreeing to take the job sitting in a pub. That crook almost drove us to ruin, with the graft and corruption and backroom dealmaking. That president had to be removed from office by force and we still suspect that a lot of KCIF files and assets went with him.

But enough about me. Times are different now and in a few weeks the new year will bring new leadership to the Kansas City Irish Fest, without bloodshed, without rancor, without table-banging arguments in smoke filled rooms, without any semblance of real democracy. So see, if the United States would only follow our lead, we wouldn't have to go through this election wringer. Instead, come January, we would be inaugurating...um, Dick Cheney.

Maybe this system isn't so bad after all.