From South Park to North Jersey: Sopranos Family Politics

This week's episode offered us a few revealing insights into the political bents of America's favorite crime family.  Among the tidbits:  Meadow suffers from advanced Bush Derangement Syndrome, Carmela voted for Bush, and Tony is predictably conflicted.

Meadow:  9/11, 9/11.  Bush is using it as an excuse to erode our Constitutional protections and you're falling for it.

Carmela:  Well, I voted for him.

Meadow:  Right.  You don't relate to black people clinging to logs.

Tony:  You ought to chill out about some of this!

The intrigue wasn't without humor either.  Christopher submitted a novel approach to discerning Islamic terrorists from friendly neighborhood Muslims.

Tony: You think there's a chance they could be, uh... Al Qaedas?  Somethin' like that?

Christopher:  Hmm, you know at one point it did cross my mind. 

Tony:  Yeah, and?

Christopher:  I don't think so.  They're gun nuts, but the smaller guy, Ahmed, when those Danish cartoons got published, he was very upset.  But at the protesters.  He said he hated the cartoons but that the rioting s*** would just bring bad attention to all Muslims.  And the other guy Mohammed, his brother's a government interrogator in Lebanon.  Or Syria.  Plus Mohammed and his girlfriend have a dog.  A springer spaniel.