Photo by Ian BrittonLike all good Americans, my knowledge of this election comes directly from the TV news programs, dwindling newspapers, and radio talk shows featuring hot heads versus blowhards…here’s my thinking so far…first of all, we should not talk about lipstick, not that Obama meant her when he talked…or that she or Wasilla is in the dark at least half the year on many foreign policy issues…meaning that Russia, at the end of her street is in the dark, too…but Hillary is right, we need to give our luke-warm support … she supports the Obama-Biden ticket not just because Biden takes Amtrak…late, he is frequently late…but because he is for the average…no offense to average people…working people. He is a working person’s person…as is Obama but not as long, not to say that Obama lacks experience working, no, there is m ore to governing than sitting in Wash… because we need judgment and good looks…and a prison record from Hanoi…Obama is good looking but so is Michael Palin and the other Palin, too…we cannot fixate on…mortgages or crumbling investment houses…because we are in two wars and everyone who is not
dead is getting tired…but Bush…his face is on TV with the sound off…we can’t hear him anymore...we can’t place exactly when he got so old…there is a group of men in cowboy hats yelling “Drill baby, drill.” (Dentists?)…we have to move forward to the change we can believe in…but only if we realize that this is a campaign of complex issues that demand clear thinking.
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5 comments:
All true and accurate. But having taken the Amtrak now and seeing Obama-Biden in person, I can attest they were substantive, and impressive.
My only concern is that Obama may feel it necessary to placate jingoists in the USA (and the M-I complex) by widening the war in Afghanistan/Pakistan and in order to "sanctify" the rest of his (mostly progressive) agenda, which is exactly what got LBJ in so much trouble.
But still . . .
Erik,
Thanks for commenting. I must confess that not only do I love Obama but I also love Amtrak, despite the sneering in my post. After reading Dreams of My Father, I have been a confirmed Obamacrat. As for Amtrak, I have taken it about 100 times between Boston and New York and to Washington too. When I have trouble falling asleep, sometimes I make believe I am riding the rails.
I once too Amtrak from Boston to Chicago and had an overnight car -- fun.
Your reservations about Obama's need to look tough are well taken. This was not the impulse behind Viet Nam in JFK's administration, too.
Mark
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