Th i ianDiy W cledaO obrV20 i w w V V V w w w w Wednesday October 3, 2007 - The Michigan Daily ElectIng a president, Guys, you've been there, you're at a house party where you hoped there would be keg stands, but instead, there's wine and cheese. You're about to leave when you see her. She must be the most beautiful girl on campus, talking with a group of people. You want to say something, but since the hot topic of conversation at the party is the electibility of Sen. Barack Obama and Sen Hillary Clinton's campaign finance policies, you're at a loss. Fear not, it doesn't take much of a primer to get up to speed with the ins and outs of the presidential race. Political science Prof. Vincent Hutchings talks about the real-life application of your poli sci course in deciphering the primary season for the 2008 presidential election. QUOTES OF THE WEEK eIt's been sad watching him transform from political maverick to religious right mouth- piece." - IRA FORMAN of the National Jewish Democratic Council on John McCain's comment that he would prefer a Christian president "They fired at him again and again with his blood flowing in the street, but they contin- ued to shoot him. - MOHOMMAD ABDUL RAZZAQ, describing an incident he witnessed where Blackwater contractors opened fire on Iraqi civilians in Baghdad TALKING POINTS Three things you can talk about this week: 1. Michigan's budget agreement 2. Radiohead's new album "Kim Jong Il does not cooperate for free." - BRUCE KLINGER of the Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center on the likelihood that Kim Jong II was offered incentives to meet with South Korea's president at a summit this week. While Mitt Romney's recent adoption of a pro-life stance on abortion has him in hot water with conservative voters wary of flip-floppers, Rudy Giuliani's tactic of deferring abortion legislation to the states has gone over well. Giuliani and Hillary Clinton are being hailed as likely winners for their respective parties, but if either forerun- ner takes a hit in an early primary, news sources might be after a "David slays Goliath" story like the one that helped sink Howard Dean's campaign after he lost in Iowa in 2004 Candidates want the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries to maintain their primacy because it's cheaper to effectively campaign ina scarcely populated state and a small state than it is elsewhere, It's hard to predict how and if voters will be affected if faced with the chance to vote for a Mormon, a black person or a woman for the first time in a 200-year history. Candidates this cycle are raising unprecedented amounts of money. With a crowded field in each party's primaries, competitors are more likely to play nice than in 2000. This elec- tion's candidates will save their worst venom for when they have only one direction to aim it. Each party's candidate could he decided by the first weekofuFeb- ruary, with so many states having their primary elections on or before Feb. 5G ANEsA CE cStEtys ly 3. Dangerous toothpaste And three things you can't: 1. The Big Ten Network 2. Anita Hill 3. Halo 3r YOUTUBE VIDEO OF THE WEEK If you like Jet Li, you'll love this Cheesy fight scenes come in many varieties. There are the old school Jet Li movies, featuring sweaty shirtless men hitting each other. Then there's your gory, more modern American movie where random appendages dangle off of well sculpted bodies. "The Best Fight Scene Ever" combines the best of both worlds. Thn clip opens with a pair of beautiful, built preparing to fight, one even licks his already-dirtied blade in a gesture of madness and possibly cannibalism d Then they rip off their shirts and fight, and if there's a more stilted or more wonderful fight scene out there, I haven't seen it. The relentless suspense comes to a head when a manly redhead, sporting true '80s bangs, walks in armed with nothinghbut a wet towel in her right hand. After assembling pseudo-numb-chucks, the woman begins to fight for herself. THEME PARTY SUGGESTION Second Life soiree - This Friday, skip party primping and go out by staying in with Second Life. Match your virtual doppelganger drink for drink, indulge your.most licentious vices and take comfort that you aren't going to wake up to a police citation or burning sensation in the morning. Throwing this party? Let us know. 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S YouTube vid youtube.com/us ie perfect combi- Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (sometimes known as Bo x 7, Bo^7, or Bo- ivalry, sweat and bobo) is a manga by Yoshio Sawai, published by Shueisha in Japan and serialized in the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. Bobobo-bo Bo- -ZOE BAMBERY bobo has also been adapted into an anime. Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo is a comedy that uses puns, double-talk, See this and other breaking of the fourth wall, non-sexualized cross-dressing, visual eos of the week at gags, and satirical and pop-culture references, which makes its ran- er/michigandaily dom humor very specific to Japanese audiences. Despite its limitations, the American dubs of the anime and manga manage to preserve the spirit of the show; the translators and adap- tation writers were forced to rewrite several of the jokes due to the Y differences between the Japanese and English languages. At several points in the dub, the American version makes fun of the fact that it is a translation of a Japanese product (for example, when Bo-bobo is filling out an application card in one episode, he botches it because the application is in Japanese and he cannot read it, instead draw- ing "little doodles" for answers; in the original Japanese version he messes up the application for a completely different reason, and the "little doodles" are his honest answers written in hiragana).