Dark Star

Somewhere on a street in a suburb of Toledo, Ohio.

Knock-knock.

"Hello? Can we help you?"

"Yes, I'm running for President of these United States and I'm going door to door to meet the voters and let them know a little more about me."

"Well, that's all well and good but, to tell the truth, I've never seen anything like you before. What the heck are you supposed to be anyway?"

"I'm dermal melanin."

"Derma... what?"

"Dermal melanin. I'm the compound that's responsible for the various shades of color in human skin."

"Oh, uh, okay. I didn't know that we were voting for skin color."

"Well,  in a way, you are. Let me put it this way... can you tell me the biggest difference between Barack Obama and John McCain?"

"Oh, NOW I get it. You think I'm the kind of idiot who would vote for John McCain just because the chemicals in his skin make him a lighter shade than Barack Obama. Right?"

"I don't know. What kind of idiot are you?"

=mike=