A vendor making Pad Thai in a small boat (while paddling and washing her hands in the canal water as needed) at the Amphawan floating market (or Amphawa depending who you ask). Looks awfully tasty and cost 50 cents (probably a buck now with the weak dollar, but still...yum.)
10. There weren't as many Osmonds as I had thought.
9. I got tired of the corkscrew landings under sniper fire.
8. As a lifelong hunter, I didn't want to miss the start of varmint season.
7. There wasn't room in the campaign for two Christian leaders.
6. Word leaked out that no one had bothered to search my passport files.
5. I'd rather get fat, grow a beard and try for the Nobel prize.
4. I wanted to finally take off the dark colored suit and tie and kick back...in a light colored suit and tie.
3. Once my wife Ann realized I couldn't win, my fundraising dried up.
2. I took a bad fall at a campaign rally and broke my hair.
1. There was a flaw in our campaign theory that as Utah goes, so goes the nation.
Political spoof songstress Amber Lee Ettinger (aka Obama Girl) meets film parody Sith Lord Chad Vader, Day Manager of a grocery store and aspiring ruler of the universe or, barring that, general manager.