Time to usher in a new era by choosing the skinny guy (Keillor)

[struggle4progress]

... The country longs for a president who can talk and think at the same time. We've been locked up with the Current Occupant for way too long, and the thought of replacing him with the Angry Old Man of the Desert and Whoopee the Ice Queen is miserable in the extreme.


Most of my Republican friends are people who are not ashamed of having worked hard and done well in school, and their party's frantic appeal to anti-intellectualism is nothing they care to sign up for. Time to nip that sucker in the bud. The party needs to reform itself around some coherent philosophy of governance and vision of the future, and for that, it must take a trip to the wilderness. They are quietly supporting the skinny guy this time around. They might tell a pollster otherwise, but that's what they will do ...

... We walk through the door and we close it behind us and the simplicity of it is dazzling. That's how it happens. You walk aboard a plane and glance into the cockpit and there's a woman in the left-hand seat, and who these days would even think this worthy of comment? You see Latino men and women moving up whose grandparents picked row crops for a living. In Tulsa, in 1921, there was a big race riot following the arrest of a young black man who was alleged to have touched a white woman on the arm. Fighting in the streets, neighborhoods torched, the National Guard called in - and this story seems medieval to us, a dark age almost beyond our ken. That culture is gone, gone, gone, and on Tuesday, we bury it by the simple democratic process of voting for the best man even though his father was African.

In America, a man is not held responsible for choosing his parents, only for his own life and conduct. This man promises to take us into a new era where we aren't defined by our differences, short vs. tall, pale vs. freckled, and can take a deep breath and do what's best for the country.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.keillor30oct30,0,5075309.story

[Robeysays]

1. wow

loved it. very good.




also like the sig

[groovedaddy]

2. I hope he's right...it's time for this to happen! n.t

[Stargazer09]

3. I hope he's right

One thing I've noticed lately is that there aren't a lot of signs for GOP candidates in my area. I would expect a lot of them here, considering this state is as red as Oregon is blue, but they are few and far between.

I would not be surprised if a lot of my neighbors are going to vote for Obama. They may not be putting out the yard signs, or even talking about their choice, but they may be as disgusted as we are with the current direction of our country.

I think a lot of people are afraid to publicly show their support of Obama without having a bunch of neighbors to back them up. I know I'm nervous about it, considering the level of violence the GOP inspires. If it were just me, there would be no hesitation, but I have children to consider. Some of my fourth grade daughter's classmates seem to be from rabid GOP families, and I don't want her ostracized at school because of my voting decisions.

Thanks for posting this!

[fencesitter]

4. Angry Old Man of the Desert and Whoopee the Ice Queen.

That's great.

[fencesitter]

5. Oh god.

I just read the comments to Garrison's editorial. Frightening.

[ailsagirl]

6. "Whoopee the Ice Queen" LOL

:rofl: