Marisacat links a good presidential yap-job rundown at SFGate. Noted: John Edwards, light of my life, fire of my loins, the flaxen-haired nymphet of Donkle '08, does the old Democratic boogie-woogie on "faith," which is to turn around to the Old Testament yodle and yell of the Oliphant and cry that Jesus wanted nothing more than a New Deal, a Great Society, an eternal earthly protectorate of kittens, babies, and indigent blacks with healthcare subsidies. Yeah, that'll sell in Kansas City. Jesus, to Americans, is an abstraction about personal righteousness. The Donk thinks he's going to win an election by bringing up the fact that the Lord and Savior of America was an adrogyne Jew with a thing for peace who lived, slept, shit, and bathed with a collection of worshipful dudes. My friend, they already chased Terrence McNally out of Texas.
Of greater interest to me is the note on Joe Biden, a man with something called "expertise in foreign policy," waxing whacko on Iranian President Denies-a-lot, Fred Leuchter with a mullah-mandate:
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Monday called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a "madman" and raised the possibility that he could be assassinated by foes within his country.Can't you just picture him on the dais abov the Kiwanians. The water glasses sweat onto the table linens. Buttons strain. Another round of chicken parm (with provolone) gets passed around. Biden pounds the podium. Honestly, is their anything nattier than an American presidential campaign?
"Ahmadinejad, the madman, is in competition with mullahs and ayatollahs who think he's overstepped his bounds," Biden told members of a local Kiwanis Club in this early voting state.
Ahmadinejad may be "assassinated, not by the good guys, but by the bad guys," said the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
At a campaign stop Sunday, Biden called Ahmadinejad "that wacko guy, the crazy president," and said he would only be in office for a little more than a year before being "taken out" because he threatened Shia interests.
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Can't you just picture him on the dais above the Kiwanians. The water glasses sweat onto the table linens. Buttons strain. Another round of chicken parm (with provolone) gets passed around. Biden pounds the podium. Honestly, is their anything nattier than an American presidential campaign?
I know I told you I wasn’t gonna comment all the time just to say your writing is tight like that.
Hallelujah, all the people in the back.
Hallelujah, it's tight like that.
Tangent: “natty,” for me, always evokes Hitler’s mustache.
fun with dyslexia: i first read chicken parm as chicken porn.
there used to be a nice little mennonite cafeteria-style restaurant in orangeburg. i wonder if it's still there.
Maybe they were serving pancakes? Chili? Or do they reserve that nattiness to the late campaigns. (All I remember of teh kiwanis was the little sacks of peanuts. They're different from the guys who drive the little cars in the parades, right?)
Teh effiminate Hayzeus is, I think, the de-Jew-ified version suitable for the Roman Catholics (the beard and hair evidently came pretty early though). And hey, we all know that it's a cult of convenience for the modern holy rollers: that's what makes it fun to sometimes throw some of teh other things their good book said back at them...
K
"Can't you just picture him on the dais abov the Kiwanians. The water glasses sweat onto the table linens. Buttons strain. Another round of chicken parm (with provolone) gets passed around."
Ah IOZ, you are the Sinclair Lewis of our times, doing battle against all the Babbits on all the Main Streets of this world.
Now, if only you could write like Upton Sinclair - why - you could turn Joe Wilson into Lanny Budd and make a freakin' fortune off the Book-of-the-Month club ...
a-ymous in the morning
that's not "dyslexia".
No shit, Max. I think taking chickens to the prom is pretty fucked-up myself.
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