Prison-Themed Board Game Could Cause Potential Obama Veep Headaches
Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius is seen as a strong contender to become presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama's running mate. But as Obama's vice presidential vetters are surely aware, a board game created by Sebelius' son – 23-year-old John – could become a campaign issue if the governor joins the ticket.
The game is called "Don't Drop The Soap," and it is, as The Capital-Journal delicately put it, an "adult-themed board game based on life in prison." The game, which was created by John Sebelius when he was a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, sells for $34.99, and is described this way on its Web site:
Sebelius spokeswoman Nicole Corcoran said in January that the governor and her husband, U.S. Magistrate Judge Gary Sebelius, "are very proud of their son John's creativity and talent." But the game has already caused Sebelius problems: A Kansas state senator called for an investigation into the game because he said it was being marketed and stored at the governor's mansion in violation of state law. (Corcoran noted that John Sebelius lived in the mansion at the time.) Republican Sen. Tim Huelskamp also called the game obscene and racist.
Sebelius responded by complaining that Huelskamp had made a decision to "pick on my son."
The game is called "Don't Drop The Soap," and it is, as The Capital-Journal delicately put it, an "adult-themed board game based on life in prison." The game, which was created by John Sebelius when he was a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, sells for $34.99, and is described this way on its Web site:
Fight your way through 6 different exciting locations in hopes of being granted parole. Escape prison riots in The Yard, slip glass into a mob boss' lasagna in the Cafeteria, steal painkillers from the nurse's desk in the Infirmary, avoid being cornered by the Aryans in the Shower Room, fight off Latin Kings in Gang War, and try not to smoke your entire stash in The Hole.Harper's Magazine (subscription only) recently listed the contents of some of the cards used in the game. Among them: "You set fire to your bunk while your cellmate robs the INFIRMARY. He splits his take with you. Collect five packs." And: "You're an educated black man. You obviously didn't get paroled."
Sebelius spokeswoman Nicole Corcoran said in January that the governor and her husband, U.S. Magistrate Judge Gary Sebelius, "are very proud of their son John's creativity and talent." But the game has already caused Sebelius problems: A Kansas state senator called for an investigation into the game because he said it was being marketed and stored at the governor's mansion in violation of state law. (Corcoran noted that John Sebelius lived in the mansion at the time.) Republican Sen. Tim Huelskamp also called the game obscene and racist.
Sebelius responded by complaining that Huelskamp had made a decision to "pick on my son."
The media is out of control.
I''d be MORE likely to vote for Obama because of this game.
Otherwise Hillary supporters will say that Barack sees women as interchangeable, and there isn''t enough time for Sebelius to establish a connection given that Hillary''s been in the public eye for so long.
And anyway, Sebelius has a totally different personality . . . I think she appeals to a different kind of woman - those who are probably already supporting Obama.
Yeah, for the neo.cons liking the sleaze needs to be spelled out in black and white, from Scooter Libby''s novel, The Apprentice ...
Excurpt from the New Yorker magazine~ "Libby does not shy from the scatological. The narrative makes generous mention of lice, snot, drunkenness, bad breath, torture, urine, %u201Cturds,%u201D armpits, arm hair, neck hair, pubic hair, pus, boils, and blood (regular and menstrual). One passage goes, %u201CAt length he walked around to the deer%u2019s head and, reaching into his pants, struggled for a moment and then pulled out his ***. He began to **** in the snow just in front of the deer%u2019s nostrils.%u201D"
Also this is shocking Libby writes "At age ten the madam put the child in a cage with a bear trained to couple with young girls so the girls would be frigid and not fall in love with their patrons. They fed her through the bars and aroused the bear with a stick when it seemed to lose interest. Groups of men paid to watch."
I have this picture in my mind of Billary having pictures of possible VP candidates tacked up in their home with them doing the same thing as dirt slowly starts trickling out. Webb collects Confederate memorabilia? X! Sebelius'' son? X! Mark Warner? We''ll take it! X!
Who knows, although I though she said she was going to campaign for Barack - what happened to that?
They don''t want a candidate that is inexperienced.
They don%u2019t want a candidate that considers it a loss to not to be able to attend his anti American, racist Church.
They don%u2019t want a candidate that has a Muslim father.
They don%u2019t%u2019 want a candidate that can%u2019t win a debate
They don%u2019t%u2019 want a candidate that misleads the youth with an %u2018Obama girl and her behind in their face%u201D
They don%u2019t want a candidate that says he%u2019s an African American and missed the MLK Remembrance Day and the Louisiana Black Caucus meeting
They don%u2019t want a candidate that has done nothing for humanity except talk about it.
They don%u2019t'' want a candidate named; Barack Hussein Obama
He scares them to death.
He is embarrassing.
He is unelectable.
They don%u2019t want a candidate that fights unfair and steals Michigan delegate votes from his opponent.
They don%u2019t want a candidate that feels sorry to leave a church that is anti American and that preaches hatred and racial views that are cruel and nasty.
They don''t want a candidate that has been in a twenty year relationship with Reverend Wright and the Trinity United Church of Christ.
They don%u2019t%u2019 want a candidate that has a twenty year relationship with Father Pflaeger as his compass in life
They don%u2019t want a candidate that went to a church that supports Louis Farrakhan, an anti Semitic racist.
They don''t want to defend Black Liberation theology.
They don%u2019t want a candidate that lies about his relationship with Tony Rezko, the Syrian Criminal that sold his property to Obama and supported his campaign.
They don''t want a candidate that could work with a domestic terrorist, William Ayers.
They don%u2019t'' want a candidate that didn''t stand up for the voters of Michigan and Florida.
They don%u2019t want a candidate that Hamas supports.
They don%u2019t want a candidate that Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam support
They don%u2019t want a candidate that has a wife that has just now realized she was proud of our country.
They don%u2019t want a candidate that denies Florida and Michigan their voices
They don%u2019t want a candidate that mentions 57 states in his speeches. 50 states in the USA and 57 states in the Nation of Islam (IOC website)
Too many rumors about his father being a Muslim and the Muslim world views of him.
He also said 57 states which is the 57 states of Islam
Why doesn''t the media report this?
Awwwwwww...Hillary took that much needed vacation you all suggested she take MONTHS AGO! LMAO!
Whats the matter...little punk Obama needs her now? Awwwwwwwwww shucks!
Too bad, so sad!
ROFL!
AND selling it out of the damned governor''s mansion!
What the HELL NEXT!!!
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Posted by neoconism at 06:34 PM : Jun 16, 2008
What IMPEACHMENT??? OH! You mean the two impeachment articles introduced by Kuchinich that the DEMOCRATS have put on the shelf now TWICE??? These same democrats to just APPOINTED this whack job Islamofast as their candidate?
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Posted by neoconism at 06:50 PM : Jun 16, 2008
I guess they''re going to investigate all 530 democrats AND republicans that voted to go to war?
Right, like that''s going to happen?
It''s never occurred to you that we''re in the war because the legislators voted for it...and now McCain just like everyone else is trying to find a SOLUTION!
The last comment about McCain was my own. The American people will take care of McCain in a huge referendum against him and the entire Republicon Party in November. The impeachment part is real. The AMerican people clearly want Bush/Cheney held accountable.
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Posted by neoconism at 07:02 PM : Jun 16, 2008
You need to tell your democrats over there in the Capitol Building that!
She is teetering on top of an influence peddling scandal where diverted campaign contributions greased the way for thousands of illegal late term abortions on viable infants at two Kansas clinics.
Sebelius%u2019 hand picked Attorney General is suing a District Attorney on behalf of one of the clinics in a last ditch attempt to keep a lid on the scandal but documents already released spell big problems for the Kansas Governor. The scandal has already tarnished her appeal with red state voters and the fact that she under official sanction from the Catholic Church for her role in the scandal diminishes the possibility that she could help Obama with blue collar Catholics who were a big part of the so called Reagan Democrats.
Posted by RowdyWicca
Just like your idol Hillary, you''re looking right when you should be looking left . . . instead of wasting your poor sportsmanship on me, you might prefer to check out the messages left to you by your (snicker snicker) ''fan club'' over at ''Political Journalism Loses A Legend''
Later! :p
What comments from noodleheads like you? Why bother...who gives a rip!
YOU? LMAO!
Posted by RowdyWicca
Well you obviously give a rip about what I say if you keep trying to start conversations with me. If you don''t value my opinion then why waste your time commenting on my comments - that''s stupid.
I''ll answer anybody who answers me . . .
As for you only insulting people who haven''t insulted you, but not fighting back against people who have insulted you - personally I think that makes you look like a doormat and a bully, but that''s just my opinion. Wimpy but hostile behavior imo . . . if you don''t give a rip, and just ignore me . . .
Deal! :)
Funny, Huelskamp belongs to the party of the kkk, aryan nations, David Duke, the Pats, Buchanan and Robertson, Bush, Limbaugh, Novak, Hannity, and other such sociopaths, and dares call a game designer racist.
As a "Black" man, I find the line "You''re an educated black man. You obviously didn''t get paroled." to be a sarcastic observation that is actually quite funny, but it might have been even funnier if it had also read, "and because you are educated, you probably won''t..."
The Republican Party is also the party of Abraham Lincoln. For years the KKK was closely affiliated with racist southern Democrats. I am not sure if you are being bigoted or genuinely ignorant of history.
Can you only imagine how tough it would be for any D.C. political star to latch onto the coat tails of the #1 most liberal member in the US Senate, who also happened to be a member of a black seperatist church for the past 20 years.
A man who''s vision of "CHANGE" is to change America back to the days of Jimah Carter''s tax and spend days. A man who now admits to being scared silly over going heads up with an "Old Man" in a debate format that clearly favors the quicker witted and more experienced of the two.
No doubt, riding second chair behind the most liberal member of the Senate, who views all Americans by the percentage-American they are, with zero gravitas, and showing major cracks in maturity is without a doubt a real winning formula. ROTFLMGTBO!!!!
The Republican Party is also the party of Abraham Lincoln. For years the KKK was closely affiliated with racist southern Democrats. I am not sure if you are being bigoted or genuinely ignorant of history.
Posted by ausus at 12:09 AM : Jun 17, 2008
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Brian has long proven himself willing to spew flat out lies on this board.
Him, Toodles and a half dozen more OsamaObama supporters on here have no trouble bending the truth to fit the yard they spew.
but you forgot to add that all those racist southern Democrats became Republicans in the years following Johnson''s signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
but you forgot to add that all those racist southern Democrats became Republicans in the years following Johnson''''s signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Posted by shingles1 at 01:20 AM :
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Chalk up one more OsamaObama minion willing to tell whatever lies they feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell a need, just to help their boy.
Al Gore''s Daddy never became a Republican. Robert KKK Byrd never became a Republican.
The Democrat Party had a stranglehold on the South until the old "Yellow Dog" began to die off in large numbers, and Jimah Carter demonstrated to all of us southerner boys how you couldn''t trust any Democrat, even if he was born and raised in the south.
The Democrat Party always has been, and it remains to this day the home of the KKK.
It is also the home party of NARAL, the baby butchers.
NAMBLA, the man boy lovers.
The American Communist Party.
The ACLU.
Southern Poverty Law.
And, so dang many un-American greenie weenie organization I don''t have time to detail.
The "Yellow Dog" wing of the Democrat Party began to lose it''s hold in 1961 when they buried Mr. Sam. Then in ''63 JFK was assasinated and LBJ came to power.
LBJ had to turn to the Rebublican Party to get his Civil Rights legislation passed, because folks like Al Gore''s Daddy fought like a wild man to block it.
The Democrat Party was in such a mess with all their centurist and right leaning leadership dead and a drunk in the White House who was sending our boys off to be cannon fodder that by 1968 the communist wing of the party took complete control and has ruled ever since.
But, make no mistake, it took Jimah Carter and the death of many, many old "Yellow Dogs" to wrestle the south away from the Democrat Party.
Posted by Element51
Yeah, that''s great advice - sometimes I get a little too excited and carried away on these boards! I''m trying to develop more patience because I saw the one you made before mine and thought it was very kind - however I''m not quite there yet with the patience! :o
Usually, I just turn off the computer, but yeah it''s probably more productive to just keep in mind that she''s entitled to her opinions too - even if it means she doesn''t like Barack . . . hmmm . . . okay I''ll follow your example!
Hope you''re having a nice evening! :)
Posted by RowdyWicca
Deal :)
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by jack3213
June 17, 2008 3:59 PM PDT
- YES, AND THEN THERE WAS ONE.
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