The “O” in Oracle

Tonight I had drinks with my friend, Pundista. She always spurs my imagination and gives me inspiration and ideas; a great attribute in a friend. Tonight was Obama night; her current passion is to work for the Obama campaign.

Now mind you, there is no Obama campaign at the moment. But what better time to apply for a position than before the company is actually created. Just think, employee #1 at Microsoft, before Bill and Paul. Before Googols’ Sergey and Larry! She could be the “O”(bama) in Oracle, even before Larry!

Now I, for full disclosure, consider myself apolitical, I have read Mr. Obama’s bio and neither of his books, I have never met him, and I think he’s rather young to be president being only 4 years older than myself. This is especially true when I consider that he’d be the same age as faithful readers Bob, Chief Fife, M. Slither, and George Clooney. And there’s no way I’d support any of them to be prez of the US.

Minority Census

“Barack Obama was born on August 4th, 1961, in Hawaii to Barack Obama, Sr. and Ann Dunham. He is the only African American now serving in the U.S. Senate.

• According to the 2000 U.S. Census, approximately 30 percent of the population currently belongs to a racial or ethnic minority group.
• In 2000, there were approximately 280M people and 84M minorities in the US.
• In 2000, the Latino population in the U.S. grew to 37 million.
• In July 2001 the black population increased to 36.1 million.

Rove Wins The Lottery!

So do you think Barack Obama has a chance to be the President of the U.S?

"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing." Karl Rove

• Total voter registration in the November 2004 election was 142 million citizens or 50% of the reported US population.
• In 1999, U.S. citizens spent $36B on lottery tickets.

This works out to more than one lottery ticket purchased for every U.S. citizen and more than 2.5 for every U.S. voter. So what’s the solution to Obama’s “my base sucks” problem?

Lottery Tickets For Votes

“In a bid to increase voter participation in Arizona, Dr. Mark Osterloh is spearheading a ballot initiative that would automatically make each person who casts a vote eligible to win a million dollars in unclaimed state lottery money.”

“Under the plan, the $1 million awarded to one randomly selected voter after each election would come from unclaimed Arizona Lottery prize money. A voter could get one entry in the drawing for voting in the primary and another for the general election.”

My prediction: Barack Hussein Obama-san needs to emulate the lottery-ticket-for-your-vote campaign in Arizona in order to win the 2008 election.