The Amazing Kreskin Casts His Ballot
Mentalist Says He Knows Who'll Be Next In The White House
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From his head, to this box: The Amazing Kreskin (left) gives a locked box with his Election 2008 prediction to the manager of a New York City bar, for safekeeping until the big day. (AP)
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George Kresge Jr., better known as The Amazing Kreskin, wrote the name of his choice to win next year's election, had a rabbi sign the paper and dropped it into a locked box on Thursday.
Kreskin says he didn't want to make a presidential prediction. But the name of the winner came to him three months ago and wouldn't leave him alone. So he came up with the scheme to write it down and lock it away.
"If I can remain impartial at least by putting it away, sealing it, having someone witness what I wrote, then I can at least get the credit. Because I really think I hit it," the 72-year-old mentalist said.
He left the box for safekeeping on a shelf above the bar at the World Bar, across the street from the United Nations.
Just in case that's not secure enough, Kreskin's giving a copy to Joey Reynolds, a talk show host on a New York radio station, WOR-AM.
Kreskin makes his living performing mind-reading tricks for hundreds of audiences a year.
News organizations sometimes ask him for news predictions around New Year's, but this is the first time he's ever forecast a presidential election. He says anyone can do it.
"But you can't do it from your own political position," he said. "You gotta step away."
Not that he's infallible. Kreskin's Web site notes that in October, he predicted the New York Yankees would not abandon their manager, Joe Torre.
The forecast "may have been clouded by my own wishful thinking," he writes.
By Warren Levinson © MMVII The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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Posted by omega39
Nail on the head omega39.
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If you''re betting money on any republican this election, you''ll loose.
Thanks to Bush and the boys, Abraham Lincoln would loose the next election as a Republican.
Posted by Extremophil at 08:41 AM : Dec 07, 2007
I didn''t know Madonna was running!
- by extremophil December 7, 2007 11:41 AM EST
- Kreskin ain''t so amazing. I bet I know who the next president is, too. (But I won''t say her name).
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