Greetings and salutations, web surfers.
Here's an email I sent to Jay Severin's "Extreme Games" on the morning of John Edwards' acceptance, revised since I am no longer trying to beat the end of the show:
Jay,
Symbolmatic?
Well, as we all now know, John Edwards is on the Dems' ticket. Alea jacta est, the die has been cast. And doesn't it make sense that the Democrats would put up on their podium, right next to their current posterboy Kerry, a man with a pleasant face, but no experience? While your metaphor of political breast implants is appropriate, I believe the current situation more resembles a man taking a baby (not necessarily his) to the workplace to try and pick up chicks. The general cooing of "oh, isn't he cute" that's going to emanate from the left will draw closer those independent voters, who are better prepared to vote for 'which candidate has the prettier face' than 'which can better lead us'. At least we have one consolation - we won't have to deal with Hillary winning by default anytime soon in what is quickly becoming a Miss America pageant for the Presidency.
Of course, I'm getting ahead of myself. What my worrying mind has turned to is the state of the Senate. Two senators are now absent, neither of whom is going to resign from the duties that they're not going to fulfill. Who keeps voting for these people? If they can't be responsible when it comes to the Senate, what assurance do we have that they will when it comes to the Presidency? Kerry complains that they schedule votes while he's on the campaign trail, he expects our entire government to hold up and wait for him. So far he has missed, what, 87% of the votes since he went on the campaign trail? And let's not forget the votes he voluntarily did not cast, in order not to jeopardize his campaign. Of course, this is in keeping with what we already know about John Kerry. While the people of Massachusetts seem to love him, I see him as a disgrace. I'm surprised that, after all these years, we don't know Kerry any better. In our defense, he does effectively hide the more embarrassing elements of his past. After all, he is the man who, in Vietnam, won a Purple Heart for injuring himself, while claiming it was due to enemy gunfire. At least, that's what the doc who treated him, Louis Letson, told the National Review. Kerry received a Purple Heart for a wound that was bound in a band-aid, devaluing the badge of honor received by so many in that war for serious injuries.
Come election day, after my vote has been cast, I look forward to laughingly declaring that, "I actually did vote for John Kerry, before I voted against him."
Until next time,
Goose
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