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Tuesday Video: Double Rainbow guy is running for president



Wow. This makes me think our very own Victor The Green is in the wrong race. It's true, Double Rainbow guy, has a real name, Paul Vasquez, and looks, unsurprisingly, like Hurley's dad from Lost. How do I know this? He has a presidential campaign. After "serious" candidates like Donald Trump and Michelle Bachmaan, his chances might not be so good. But with this platform, from the above video, I'm hoping he'll fair better, maybe if auto-tuned:

If I was to get elected president, I would declare a state of emergency. i would create a section of the government like homeland security but it would be for alternative energy, and that department would be in charge of making sure that we could maximize our efforts to get ourselves on alternative energy. We need to get off of foreign oil here in this country, it is depleting our resources and it's polluting our environment and it's making it so that we cannot survive on this planet anymore. My main issue is that we need to do what Eisenhower did for the highway system and what Kennedy did for the moon race and declare emergency, and say that this is priority one, PRIORITY ONE, and we are going to get on alternative energy, we're going to put Americans to work BUILDING THE INFRASTRUCTURE that it takes to connect our alternative energy generating capacity so that we can get off of foreign oil and we'll be rich again and that will solve all our problems.

From CNN:

Paul Vasquez is better known to the Internet as the "Double Rainbow Guy." He lives in a mobile home just outside of Yosemite National Park, tinkers in organic farming and alternative energy, and is famous for his exuberant appreciation of nature's post-rain light display.



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