How is it that no sooner do we start having fun when something has to come along and ruin it?
We've had almost three weeks of good old fashioned political theater -- Sweet Sarah, the moose-hunting mama takes aim at Washington. Such fun it was -- the bridge to nowhere, Troopergate, jets on eBay, teen-age sex and shotgun weddings -- way better than the wonky stuff the Democrats wanted to talk about. When putting lipstick on pigs becomes a major campaign issue -- politics just don't get any better.
Then reality rears it's ugly head.
Here we are with an economic situation that hasn't been so grim since Herbert Hoover insisted that prosperity was just around the corner. Look folks, when the country's biggest banks are going broke the rest of us best sit up and take notice -- especially those of us running for president - or voting for president.
It's time to take the GOP's Tina Fey wanna-be off the front page and start asking the guys at the top of the ticket what they intend to do to keep 2009 from looking all together too much like 1929.
We'd best quit looking to find a candidate who's "just like us" and find out which one is a whole lot smarter than we are. Sarah may know the price of sneakers at the Wasilla Wal-Mart, but we need the folks in the White House who understand a whole lot more than that.
Sorry Sarah, it was fun while it lasted, but now it's time to get serious and you're just a side-show.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Friday, September 05, 2008
Driven batty?
I guess it would be a stretch to link the pair of rabid bats found in Winona over the last couple of weeks with the political goings-on in Denver and St. Paul, but after two weeks of non-stop poli-spin anybody who's been paying attention to the parties' parties is probably a bit batty at this point.
In Denver we had three days of non-stop invocations in the name of St. Barack culminating with worship in the Greek Temple on the 50 yard line ... if the Democrats could have come up with a virgin, she would have been in a dangerous place.
Republican's usually have a better time with virginity, but since Alaska's First Family + boyfriend has been declared off-limits, we won't go there. The GOP -- who've supposedly had the keys to the White House these last eight years and fielded majorities in the Congress for all last two (when they insist nothing was done anyway) spent a week working itself into a lather to "throw the bums out" and "clean up the mess in Washington." It's the first time on records the tenants served themselves the eviction notice.
Meanwhile, hurricanes are lining up in the Atlantic, the unemployment rate creeps ever upward, an ice shelf the size of Manhattan disappeared in the arctic and Winona is dealing with an outbreak of rabid bats.
Enough, already.
In Denver we had three days of non-stop invocations in the name of St. Barack culminating with worship in the Greek Temple on the 50 yard line ... if the Democrats could have come up with a virgin, she would have been in a dangerous place.
Republican's usually have a better time with virginity, but since Alaska's First Family + boyfriend has been declared off-limits, we won't go there. The GOP -- who've supposedly had the keys to the White House these last eight years and fielded majorities in the Congress for all last two (when they insist nothing was done anyway) spent a week working itself into a lather to "throw the bums out" and "clean up the mess in Washington." It's the first time on records the tenants served themselves the eviction notice.
Meanwhile, hurricanes are lining up in the Atlantic, the unemployment rate creeps ever upward, an ice shelf the size of Manhattan disappeared in the arctic and Winona is dealing with an outbreak of rabid bats.
Enough, already.
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