In Politics: Afghan President Campaigns Like It's 1984

Hamid Karzai in his new US donated Afghans In Motion (AIM) campaign wagon

In the upcoming Afghan national elections, President Hamid Karzai is taking a page right out of the last two John McCain presidential runs - using a campaign bus modeled after the senator's Straight Talk Express. He calls it Afghans in Motion, or AIM.

Funded by donations from well meaning goat herders and the odd poppy field day laborer, the vehicle was outfitted as both a tour bus and a Roto-Rooter dispatch truck. President Karzai felt that his latest campaign theme of "Cleaning up the shit in Kabul Before it All Runs Downhill" was a winning one, and personally supervised the artwork on the unusual political transport. In a related event, local Taliban fighters were attempting to get their own campaign truck operational before the fall elections but were having trouble keeping suicide bombers from exploding as soon as they turned on the ignition.