From: brode@icpsr.umich.edu (Jon Brode)
Subject: Humor: Ice-T for President
Originator: brode@tdis.icpsr.umich.edu
Organization: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 20:45:16 GMT

I found this in the Letters section of the Detroit Metro Times (Aug 12-18
issue), it is reprinted here without the permission of the magazine or
author.  Any mistakes are almost certainly mine.


10 Reasons to Write in Ice-T for President of the United States:

1.  Ice-T will tell the truth. Except for maybe about his age. But he's
    definitely old enough to run the country. He is certainly the only
    candidate who has never lied to Congress or the press.

2.  Ice-T is the only candidate who will respect and protect the
    Constitution and civil liberties. Ice-T will honor the First Amendment
    by putting an end to censorship. The Democrats have Tipper Gore. The
    Republicans have George Bush, who's bashed rockers (including Ice-T);
    James Baker (Bush Secretary of State/campaign manager, whose wife
    started the PMRC with Tipper); and Fred Malek (campaign chairman), a
    PMRC donor. Ice-T will also be a better protector of the Second
    Amendments -- the right to keep and bear arms -- than the National
    Rifle Association, which attacked him for writing and singing "Cop
    Killer."

3.  Ice-T is the unity candidate. He's a rapper and a rocker. That means
    he's comfortable speaking to both black and white Americans, unlike
    many of his opponents.

4.  A vote for Ice-T will send a high-impact message to Tipper, Bill,
    George, Dan, Al -- even the PMRC -- cheaper than AT&T, Sprint, MCI or
    Western Union.

5.  Ice-T is guaranteed to make the most exciting inaugural address since
    Lincoln. No need to pay nasty per-view fees to hear it either. All the
    networks will cover it live.

6.  Ice-T is the peace and justice candidate. Unlike Bill Clinton, he has
    never personally overseen the execution of any citizen, let alone one
    with brain damage. Unlike George Bush, Dan Quayle and Al Gore, he has
    never instigated a purposeless war where several hundred thousand
    innocent people died.

7.  Darlene, Ice-T's wife and album cover model, puts every other first
    lady away -- she's smarter and more beautiful than the rest combined.
    And wait 'til you meet the rest of the crew -- they'll lend more
    meaning to the term running mate.

8.  An Ice-T presidency is the only one that GUARANTEES change in
    America.  The guy's probably never so much as voted himself, which
    means none of the idiocy and corruption of our present government is
    in any way his fault. On the other hand, he's still open-minded about
    the process.  As the man said last year on behalf of Rock the Vote,
    "We've got two options -- voting or hostile takeover. I'm down with
    either one."

9.  We need a REAL choice, not a way of picking between branches of the
    PMRC (Tipper's vs. Susan Baker's) or corporate America (Clinton's
    Wal-Mart vs. Bush's Pennzoil).

10. Fuck the Police.

Make your vote count, vote for Ice-T.

	Dave Marsh,
	New York.


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Jon
Organization: Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA