I wish Molly Ivins had lived to see Barack Obama become president.

[Syrinx]

I don't have an essay this time. I just wanted to say that.

[taterguy]

1. Molly Ivins almost got me killed

She told an extremely off-color joke in a Baptist Chapel.

The punchline was: You just passed a law that says a prick can't touch an asshole.

I'm not a religious man but I was ready for God to send a thunderbolt.

Boy do I miss her.

[Cyrano]

5. She wrote that in a column after the Texas legislature passed an

anti-gay law.

Two wingnut Texas politicians had pushed hard to get through legislation making homosexuality illegal. When it passed the two shook hands.

Molly's commentary, printed in "Mother Jones" magazine which permits obscenity, was that "In shaking hands, they broke the law they had just passed which stated that a prick couldn't touch an asshole."

(She reprinted this article in her book "Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?")

On edit: And, boy, do I miss her too. The world just isn't the same without her.

[Syrinx]

2. can someone imitate what she might be writing now. might be fun?

[jonnyblitz]

3. she'd probably be critical of his choice of cabinet and advisors,

warren for the invocation, support of wall street bailout, plans to escalate war in Afghanistan, etc. DU Obama loyalists would probably have thrown her under the bus by now if she were still with us.

[cali]

4. Molly may well have been critical

over some Obama choices but she would have been thrilled about Obama and she would have said so loudly- much to the consternation of DU reactionaries who would be howling endlessly about how Molly was a complicit sell out asshole.

[Baby Snooks]

8. She'd be banging the pots and pans...

She'd be banging the pots and pans. Wondering where the hell our table went. And the only ones who would be calling her a complicit sell asshole would be those who like the table just fine.

[lamp_shade]

6. Oh... I think about that so often. Damn. n/t

[lonestarnot]

7. I certainly miss her.

:(

[NNN0LHI]

9. I fear she would have advised people to vote for Nader in states "where it didn't count" again

And Obama would have lost states like Indiana and others and the win would not have been decisive. We would still be counting votes right now until the Supreme Court stepped in again and handed it to McCain.

Don

[Paladin]

10. You And Me Both. God Bless And Keep Her. (n/t)