Two out of three ain’t bad. On July 28 (see penultimate blog) I predicted that Barack Obama would select Joe Biden as his running mate. Right on the button. Number two hit – I said that Obama would be swift-boated. He was in a despicable book titled Obama Nation.
Along with every panelist, blogger, politician, I miss fired on a running mate for John McCain. No one guessed he would select a woman governor, Sarah Palin, a mother of five, the youngest having Downs Syndrome for whom the media tried to lead the public into believing was really her 17 year old daughter’s child, an accusation that belongs in the swift-boating category!
A tisket, a tasket
what the hell is going on in Alaska?
It’s not smooth sailin’,
for Sarah Palin.
The beat goes on. Now she has been accused of unethical treatment of her brother-in-law, state trooper, unfairly fired by her. Her husband was arrested for DUI a few years ago. Her international experience consists of one trip to Kuwait. As a member of the NRA, she’ll be an adequate replacement for lawyer-shooting Cheney. Regardless of all this media attention, I like her and her family! One major reservation, John McCain’s selection of Ms. Palin as his running mate sent Rush Limbaugh into glorious moments of orgasmic delight! She might reward him with an Eskimo kiss (iiick!)
I may appear naïve, but I have to ask this question: do Eskimos vote?
That may be a job for Google. I remember a legend about Eskimos piling into a dog sled to vote for Harry Truman or Thomas Dewey but never reaching the polling place because they drove off a bridge to nowhere. After the Chicago Trib mistakenly declared Dewey the winner, Harry Truman won by a slim margin. Later, former army captain Harry Truman stopped General MacArthur from invading China, ordered him home and chewed him out on the airport tarmac. Now that’s what I call a leader, someone who can take charge and get those damn Russians in line. A true test of military leadership is the way enlisted men respond to officers. Harry Truman’s W.W.1 doughboys admired him for working in the trenches and not in the Oval Office.
Mail Bag:
A letter from Hal S: “In your last blog you carried a number of caricatures of the presidential candidates. You over looked one of McCain as the doughboy.” This is not a valid cartoon of John McCain because he is unable to raise his arms over his shoulders, the result of his torture in Hanoi Hilton.
You might be interested to know that the doughboy designation was pinned on our soldiers by the English and French who were amused by the American love of doughnuts. They didn’t get enough of the doughnuts but they got enough of their foreign comrades-at-arms.
This is enough for now. After all it is Labor Day! For many years I would be preparing to meet new classes to teach but that’s all over. Old teachers never die they just fade away.
