Take Me to Your Leader
How can anyone possibly think that John Kerry, along with millions of other American men and women, wouldn't make a better U.S. President than the present person who is daily allowed to use the Oval Office as if it is his own? Anyone reading this would make a better Chief Executive. Their spouses would. They almost certainly know a bunch of neighbors who would. There could even be as many as three Republicans who would.
Even I would, despite my present shaky condition. At least if I had been interviewed on "Meet the Press" those several months ago, I wouldn't have had to mutter something like "My military records aren't available right now. They're being treated with Old Dutch Cleanser somewhere in Colorado." Instead I could have waved a folder an inch thick with all my Air Force records from half a century ago and said, "Yeah! Here they are, documenting everything I did in my little hitch of nearly four years!"
Can anyone imagine an alien landing in D.C. and saying "Take me to your leader," and being escorted into the presence of this nondescript guy who doesn't read and isn't adept with the language of his country, to the point that he probably uses the word "terror" 3,000 times a day and "freedom" 2,000 as all-purpose terms to cover any issue or situation? Yet this man is presumably the best we could find for the head of our government, out of a nation of close to three hundred million. His attaining the office of President is perfectly incredible and a permanent blot on our political process.
But I guess we don't really elect people at all, do we? We just vote for concepts, and right now the reigning concept is the Republican one of extreme pugnacity and leaving scruples at home.
GWBush reminds me of those bigamists that you hear about, with multiple wives in different places, and you wonder, after their secret is uncovered, why no one bothered to check their stories through so many years. With his military career already wreathed in that sort of mystery, I think his college credentials should also be checked.
A friend said that it's impossible to believe that Bush wrote even one paper while he was at Yale and Harvard. So he should also produce a couple of those. After all, he has to start stocking his Presidential Library anyway, doesn't he? Or will everything in there date entirely from the day he seems to think he was born, September 12, 2001?
Even I would, despite my present shaky condition. At least if I had been interviewed on "Meet the Press" those several months ago, I wouldn't have had to mutter something like "My military records aren't available right now. They're being treated with Old Dutch Cleanser somewhere in Colorado." Instead I could have waved a folder an inch thick with all my Air Force records from half a century ago and said, "Yeah! Here they are, documenting everything I did in my little hitch of nearly four years!"
Can anyone imagine an alien landing in D.C. and saying "Take me to your leader," and being escorted into the presence of this nondescript guy who doesn't read and isn't adept with the language of his country, to the point that he probably uses the word "terror" 3,000 times a day and "freedom" 2,000 as all-purpose terms to cover any issue or situation? Yet this man is presumably the best we could find for the head of our government, out of a nation of close to three hundred million. His attaining the office of President is perfectly incredible and a permanent blot on our political process.
But I guess we don't really elect people at all, do we? We just vote for concepts, and right now the reigning concept is the Republican one of extreme pugnacity and leaving scruples at home.
GWBush reminds me of those bigamists that you hear about, with multiple wives in different places, and you wonder, after their secret is uncovered, why no one bothered to check their stories through so many years. With his military career already wreathed in that sort of mystery, I think his college credentials should also be checked.
A friend said that it's impossible to believe that Bush wrote even one paper while he was at Yale and Harvard. So he should also produce a couple of those. After all, he has to start stocking his Presidential Library anyway, doesn't he? Or will everything in there date entirely from the day he seems to think he was born, September 12, 2001?
posted by Carl (aka Sofarsogoo) | 11:04 PM
2 Comments:
Smiles all around! And you could be right about Cleese. At least I can't think of anyone funnier.
Jon Stewart is the funniest man on television when skewering the obviously ignorant polititians and their lapdog press pundits.
You should have seen the way he made Wolf Blitzer look like a complete jack ass.
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