Citizen Diddy

washingtonpost.com;"The man who is the very richest undecided voter in Madison Square is slumped in a chair in a swanky private lounge for very special Republicans. He has a tattoo on his neck and huge diamonds in his ears, a Yankees cap on his head. He has his cell phone in one hand and his blackberry in the other, tabbing back and forth between the two. The waiters and security guards recognize him. The other guests in the suite, men in perfectly cut suits and women with lacquered hair and pricey shoes, do not. In a while, Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie himself is going to come along and put an arm around this man, and escort him onto the convention floor, where the two will stop and chat, creating a mob scene of the curious. The Texas delegates, in their Lone Star shirts and 10-gallon hats, will stop their Dubya cheers and turn to gape. Can call me P. Diddy." Now Mr. Diddy, multimillionaire mogul, rapper, clothing designer, restaurateur and father of three, has decided to extend his brand of street chic. He has become a political activist, taking $250,000 of his own money to found a new organization called Citizen Change. He boasts he will drive up voting among the 45 million hip-hop young, who are, he says, "disenfranchised and so, so, so [angry] at being on the sidelines." He has a shocking slogan -- "Vote or Die" -- plastered on 70,000 T-shirts now selling for $30 at stores from Macy's to J.C. Penney. In the promotional materials."I wanted something dramatic, that would strike up controversy," says Diddy. When the president is running your country, he is running you. The way he sees it, the hip-hoppers already are wearing his clothes and buying his records and letting him tell them what's cool. They'll listen up when he tells them to register and get to the polls. He sees himself as the third rail of American politics. "I'm their worst nightmare," Diddy declares, referring to the two political parties. "I'm closer than Kerry or Bush to these 45 million votes." But Diddy doesn't want anyone to think he's a Republican or a Democrat. He went to the Democratic convention in Boston. Now he is here with his latest marketing scheme. "I'm going at it hard," he says.Because Diddy is a smart mogul, says Brown, "can you mention possible mayoral candidate in 2006" in Washington? Because he is Diddy, he moves with a ponderous entourage. A couple of delegates stand on their tiptoes to figure out what's going on. "Who's the guy in the green tie?" one man asks. "I think it's the governor of Colorado," a second responds. "Yeah, that's definitely who it is." Who's the other guy, the first man asks. No idea, says the second. "That's P. Diddy," says a woman from Louisiana. "Don't you know P. Diddy?" "Huh," says the first man. "What's he doing diddlin' around here?"

I found this to be one of the biggest jokes I have read so far in this, election so far. I think what I am trying to figure out is?..Who is using who..LOL