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I hate politics

It’s like a horror movie. I can’t take my eyes away and I’m morbidly fascinated by what I see, but I hate it.

And that wasn’t helped this morning by a program on Boston’s NPR news radio—The Connection—where one of the guests was Kieran Mahoney, Republican Strategist. Every other sentence he uttered began with, “The truth is...” and I thought, “Probably not.”

Then, in response to a remark from a listener about the extreme divisiveness running rampantly through Washington and the country, he made the straight-faced claim that President Bush has been a uniter and has governed from the center.

I damned near hyperventilated.

If Repub strategists truly believe the president has governed from a centrist position, how far out in the right fringe do they live?!

That is a rhetorical question, btw.

Posted on 10/14/04 at 10:00 AM
 




Linkmeister

That’s easy.  “On the far right bank of the mainstream.”

United States   Posted by Linkmeister on 10/15/04  at  01:14 AM





Kate

I think they found a tributary somewhere along the line. Far right bank of that one.

United States   Posted by Kate on 10/15/04  at  07:22 AM





N in Seattle

It’s the middle of the stream on the far right in which we’re about to change horses.  (How’s that for a tortured metaphor?)

BTW, I’m sure you saw the review of the Vote for Change tour finale over on The American Street.  James Taylor did a whole lot better with the metaphor than I did:

“I hate it when they say you shouldn’t change horses in mid-stream. The horse can’t swim and it’s in way over its head and that horse shouldn’t have crossed the stream in the first place, and there’s a good democratic mule right there.  So change that horse.  Change it.”

United States   Posted by N in Seattle on 10/15/04  at  09:55 AM





Kate

I :heart: James Taylor!

That was an excellent review. Wish I could have been there!

United States   Posted by Kate on 10/15/04  at  11:53 AM





N in Seattle

Me too.  Seeing Bonnie, Jackson, and Keb’ in the series opener was wonderful and powerful, but the momentum driving toward the finale must have been even better.

I did mention that a gaggle of us are going to see Dan Bern the night before Election Day, didn’t I?  I imagine he’ll have a few choice anatomical suggestions for Dubya.

United States   Posted by N in Seattle on 10/15/04  at  12:17 PM





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