Monday night sessions? Wayne, I'm on the couch 4 - 5 times a week. My guy's Freudian and I personally have paid for his August home in Tuscanny and several remodels in Hyde Park.
It's not a false sense of confidence by any stretch of the imagination. It's a legal education years in the trenchs, experience sifting through crap and calling a spade a spade (well, maybe a little bit of lithium).
We don't live in an American Idol society? 4 years ago, Barack Obama was the up and coming star of the Democratic Party? Granted, 95% thought Hillary was the heir apparent. But you know what, you guys maybe were too good. The hatred of she and Bill along with the Clinton baggage that you and your kind kept on talking about on these and similar forums, talk radio, the corporate media, forewarning us of the upcoming Clinton catagory 5 disaster maybe, just maybe, cracked the door open for this Kennedyesque leader to upset your very good marketing machine.
But lets compare Obama to the latest right wing phenom, the moose hunting, hockey mom, everyones favorite looker, Sarah "the Pentecostal" Palin. Tell me Wayne, 4 years ago, was she the up and coming Republican star on the horizon. Was she Ronald Reagan in drag? Was her name being tossed about the Republican convention in 04 as the heir apparent to Georgie boy since Satan had no plans of running?
I don't recall her name even coming up, actually. I think she may have been on that regulatory commision in Alaska. So, how did this diamond in the rough get discovered by old John? Stroke (pun intended) of luck? One gal in 300 million carved out of the ice and snow of the frozen tundra? She is just so qualified????
Puhleeese. This is America. Home of Hollywood. We can use smoke and mirrors. We can cherry pick evidence and convince millions to launch a war killing hundreds of thousands. We can deny scientific evidence and let killers go free because gloves don't fit. We can pass out tobacco lobby money on the senate floor and say its first amendment protected. We can elect George Bush president. Twice.
In America, a brilliant, hard working 1/2 black 1/2 white man, who did things right, who worked hard, educated himself, Harvard, who is a leader, who is married to a brilliant woman, who has a family, who is not susceptible to the normal and regular black attack from white america (shiftless, lazy, unmarried, 100 kids out of wedlock, welfare, angry black man, criminal, rappin, nigga, 85 momma's) is under attack. For what. Being an elitist?????? Being smart?????? His f'ing pastor.
In America, if American Idol is the most watched show by a long shot, Sarah Palin can be vice president. If George Bush get's elected because the American electorate says,"thats a guy I can have a beer with" Sarah Palin can be vice president. If women in America say I will vote for Sarah Palin because "she's just like me" then, as I've said before, we are getting what we deserve.
When did intellectuals, smart people, leaders, and people with vision become a bad thing? When did beer drinking buddies, soccer moms and housewives become the ideal standard for the leaders of the free world? I don't want the president of the United States to be a guy I would feel comfortable having a beer with or a gal who reminds me of my neighbor. I expect more.
With that said, I'd feel real comfortable pounding a few with ole John while we were bellied up at some bar in Scottsdale him telling war stories and me lying about courtroom adventures while were both checking out Sarah leaning up against the jukebox playing some Roy Orbison songs.
Somehow, I don't picture that same scene with Barack.
Eddie
