Until recently, it was like spring. Then suddenly it said “To hell with global warming, I’m chilling...” I think I’ll sue Al Gore – the big man.
Speaking of whom... in the fullness of fairness, I want to see Al win, even though he isn’t running yet. I feel miserable when I put myself in his place, yearning for the Presidency, knowing his whole family knows he’s going to get it, thinking it’s his - it has to be. And all that before becoming Vice-President. Then, to be put in the position where it is inevitable, Vice President for a popular administration whose only black mark is being too sexy. Gore’s got no problem there; he’ll be a shoe-in. You know in your heart he went to bed every night consoling himself with the thought that someday it would all be his. And then the impossible, the absolutely impossible. Like dying. Can’t happen. But it did, and no matter how hard he kicked and screamed, there was nothing he could do about it.
It would make me happy to see Al win. But only on a personal level. For the public good, Hillary seems the safer bet. She voted for the war on the basis, she said, of info from the first Bush admin that was passed down to the (first)
And, she’ll have Bill to buck her up. That matters. And to keep her in line if need be. I think he’s probably the only one she would let influence her. And I think she’d fight tooth and nail, to the political death if need be, if it was for something she really thought necessary.
Barack, on the other hand, loves peace, doesn’t everybody? If we only ignore those bad people out there, they’ll obligingly fade away. Don’t you want to live in my land where there aren’t any problems that we can’t sit down like gentlemen and talk about?
Nice work if you can get it, but I don’t think you can get it if you try. So he’s a little scary, because he seems religious about it – nothing could induce him to fight back because fighting... well, it’s so déclassé. But for sheer appeal, he makes everybody else on both sides look sick. He’s the only healthy man running; everybody else is a caricature of disease and old age. He’s uplifting to look at.
Rudy is already called
Mr. Heinz is too elitist, in such a bad way. He doesn’t realize that when he says, “If you don’t go to school you’ll end up in Iraq.” everyone can hear, immediately following, “or being a garbage man or a truck driver.” Also, he tells too many lies and makes too many blunders. We can’t afford him. He’s oblivious. Too much of a thinker. He ought to set himself up writing mysteries.
McCain is too old. Not in years, but in prospects. He had a serious cancer, which has to worry him; it’s not good when the President has to worry about his body. It’s distracting. And the tales of his temper are easy to believe. This is someone who suffered great abuse. How do we know how it affected him? How do we know he isn’t “The Manchurian Candidate?”
Mitt Romney - nobody ever heard of him - movie-star looks, a Republican elected in a super-Democratic state, so he must have something. His views on everything are in flux right now, as in both parties, in order to win the Primary, most of the candidates have to say exactly the opposite of what will get them elected President.
Dennis Kucinich is such a cutie, so serenely sure that he’s right, because everything he wants is just the way we would want it to be, isn’t it? There was a New Yorker cartoon last time around that was a graph of the candidates’ ratings from 1 to 10. Kucinich got 2’s and 3’s, even some 1’s and 0’s in the various states, but he got a 10 on Mars. And my imaginary vote. Not my real one.
Ron Paul, the anti-war libertarian MD congressman runs as a Republican. And has miniature horses! And a miniature donkey. That should be worth a few votes.
Edwards believes in two
And Fat Albert? What was he doing all winter – bulking up like a cat for cold weather? No, he’s just charitably sequestering carbon in the planet’s interest.
