State of the Race
The Note sums up the presidential race we find ourselves saddled with:
Amidst the outbreak of high-intensity campaign hysteria of lawyers, guns, money, Vietnam, political threats about terror threats, and debates-about-debates, any pretext that this campaign would be about issues instead of caricatures is dead and buried.Thus, George Bush as brought to you by the Democrats and the GOP version of John Kerry :
BUSH TIMELINE
Born (with a silver spoon in his mouth) to patrician New England family in New Haven on July 6, 1946.
Prep school cheerleader.
Young and irresponsible � and vaguely so.
“I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun in order to get a deferment. Nor was I willing to go to Canada. So I chose to better myself by learning how to fly airplanes.”
AWOL, physical-dodging, hard-partying bogus flyboy.
Failed businessman with continuing young and irresponsible behavior (a.k.a.: the Kitty Kelley years).
Powerless, faux-bipartisan governor of Texas.
Over-promising, vague, McCain-savaging presidential candidate.
Supreme-Court-manipulating, illegitimate president-elect.
Right-wing, war-mongering, environment-destroying, special-interest-controlled, daddy-revenge-seeking, stem-cell-research-crushing, vacation-taking, tax-cutting, neo-con puppet POTUS.
KERRY TIMELINE
Privileged, French boy with ambiguous cultural heritage.
Preternaturally ambitious prepster.
Medal-seeking, exploit-filming, fabricating, wimpy-yet-overly-aggressive Swift Boat exploiter.
Medal-throwing, Fonda-consorting, Genghis-Khan-citing anti-war radical.
Money-marrying, rich-man’s-sports-loving pretty boy.
District-shopping, Dukakis-hugging, hyper-ambitious pol.
Uber-liberal, do-nothing, anti-military, tax-raising senator.
Howard-Dean-aping, flip-flopping, Iraq-war-bobbing, Gore-like presidential candidate.
Somewhere, Joe Lieberman and John McCain are piously shaking their heads at the cartoonish nature of the campaign. But, if you’re anything like me, you’re savoring every moment.
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