Nov 4, 2011
Speaking of Greek politicians
It is pleasant to look upon the last Greek citizen known to work a full six-day week.
Ingratitude
You and I and all our neighbors have, at huge expense, dispatched our president to "The South of France" for purposes of advising Europe on its debt problems. It's his second day there, and we have yet to receive one token of thanks from the Old World -- not a wedge of brie, nary a Black Forest cuckoo clock nor a jug of olive oil.
I believe I speak on behalf of the entire nation in expressing shock at this slight.
It is no comfort to side with the sorehead who remarks that having Barack Obama as a financial advisor is much like having Lindsay Lohan as your substance abuse counsellor.
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Note to the editors of America: Do you really believe referring to it as "The South of France" make you seem all cosmopolitan and jet-setty? Okay, then the next time His Obamaness flies into Ardmore, we want to hear you report that he arrived in the South of Oklahoma.
I believe I speak on behalf of the entire nation in expressing shock at this slight.
It is no comfort to side with the sorehead who remarks that having Barack Obama as a financial advisor is much like having Lindsay Lohan as your substance abuse counsellor.
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Note to the editors of America: Do you really believe referring to it as "The South of France" make you seem all cosmopolitan and jet-setty? Okay, then the next time His Obamaness flies into Ardmore, we want to hear you report that he arrived in the South of Oklahoma.
Nov 3, 2011
Yeah, he probably groped 'em
In a society governing itself in mature ways, the political response would be, "So what?"
My belief, based on nothing by way of fact other than what everyone has seen, is that he had a lech on for the office help and did a little probing in hopes of getting lucky. That makes him tacky, distasteful, boorish, socially inept.
It does not insert him into another minority group. The generation of executives from whom he chose his mentors was rife with bosses who believed it best if the girls in the typing pool could type, but, if they couldn't, might be retained for other positions. Call it wrong, but recognize that it was the culture and it took an unusually strong man to resist.
A morning review of Politico shows nine fat stories on office groping in the 90s by the man would would be president. Probably that many more are being run through spell czeck. The underlying theme is that a man guilty of a furtive slap and tickle is unqualified to administer the federal government; a man such as William Jefferson Clinton.
There are good reasons to oppose this guy, to see him as a buffoon. China on the verge of nuclear capability. The 999 plan (crafted solely to seem simple to the dullest voter). His love relationship with fiat currency and high-speed presses over at Printing and Engraving.
Inviting Whazzername to his apartment is not one of those reasons. If it were, the nation would be forced by logic to cancel the halo of one John F. Kennedy.
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The real damage is to the quality of the national dialog. There for a while we thought it could go no lower.
My belief, based on nothing by way of fact other than what everyone has seen, is that he had a lech on for the office help and did a little probing in hopes of getting lucky. That makes him tacky, distasteful, boorish, socially inept.
It does not insert him into another minority group. The generation of executives from whom he chose his mentors was rife with bosses who believed it best if the girls in the typing pool could type, but, if they couldn't, might be retained for other positions. Call it wrong, but recognize that it was the culture and it took an unusually strong man to resist.
A morning review of Politico shows nine fat stories on office groping in the 90s by the man would would be president. Probably that many more are being run through spell czeck. The underlying theme is that a man guilty of a furtive slap and tickle is unqualified to administer the federal government; a man such as William Jefferson Clinton.
There are good reasons to oppose this guy, to see him as a buffoon. China on the verge of nuclear capability. The 999 plan (crafted solely to seem simple to the dullest voter). His love relationship with fiat currency and high-speed presses over at Printing and Engraving.
Inviting Whazzername to his apartment is not one of those reasons. If it were, the nation would be forced by logic to cancel the halo of one John F. Kennedy.
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The real damage is to the quality of the national dialog. There for a while we thought it could go no lower.
Another girl with a gun
But at least this one is offered with a serious political message.
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