He's hilarious. In one VERY short sentence: "After Tuesday's split decisions in Indiana and North Carolina, Clinton, the Yankee Clipperette, can, and hence eventually will, creatively argue that she is really ahead of Barack Obama, or at any rate she is sort of tied, mathematically or morally or something, in popular votes, or delegates, or some combination of the two, as determined by Fermat's Last Theorem, or something, in states whose names begin with vowels, or maybe consonants, or perhaps some mixture of the two as determined by listening to a recording of the Beach Boys' "Help Me, Rhonda" played backward, or whatever other formula is most helpful to her, and counting the votes she received in Michigan, where hers was the only contending name on the ballot (her chief rivals, quaintly obeying their party's rules, boycotted the state, which had violated the party's rules for scheduling primaries), and counting the votes she received in Florida, which, like Michigan, was a scofflaw and where no one campaigned, and dividing Obama's delegate advantage in caucus states by pi multiplied by the square root of Yankee Stadium's Zip code."
George knows how to write. My absolute, laugh-out-loud line "...today would be at her ancestral home in New York planning to return some of its furniture to the White House next January." "ancestral home" ... ha!
HOW ABOUT: "Clinton's political defeat can be similarly explained-too late in recognizing that the electorate does not acknowledge her entitlement to the presidency, too late in understanding that she had a serious challenger, too late in anticipating that she woud not dispatch Barack Obama by Super Tuesday (Feb 5), too late in planning for the special challenges of caucus states, too late in channeling her inner-shot-and-a-beer hard hat ... Obama is Reaganesque in two important senses: People like listening to him,and his manner lulls his adversaries into underestimating his sheer toughness-the tempered steel beneath the sleek suits."
gwayoMay 8, 2008
He's hilarious. In one VERY short sentence: "After Tuesday's split decisions in Indiana and North Carolina, Clinton, the Yankee Clipperette, can, and hence eventually will, creatively argue that she is really ahead of Barack Obama, or at any rate she is sort of tied, mathematically or morally or something, in popular votes, or delegates, or some combination of the two, as determined by Fermat's Last Theorem, or something, in states whose names begin with vowels, or maybe consonants, or perhaps some mixture of the two as determined by listening to a recording of the Beach Boys' "Help Me, Rhonda" played backward, or whatever other formula is most helpful to her, and counting the votes she received in Michigan, where hers was the only contending name on the ballot (her chief rivals, quaintly obeying their party's rules, boycotted the state, which had violated the party's rules for scheduling primaries), and counting the votes she received in Florida, which, like Michigan, was a scofflaw and where no one campaigned, and dividing Obama's delegate advantage in caucus states by pi multiplied by the square root of Yankee Stadium's Zip code."
diggeradooMay 8, 2008
George knows how to write. My absolute, laugh-out-loud line "...today would be at her ancestral home in New York planning to return some of its furniture to the White House next January." "ancestral home" ... ha!
lc5827May 9, 2008
HOW ABOUT: "Clinton's political defeat can be similarly explained-too late in recognizing that the electorate does not acknowledge her entitlement to the presidency, too late in understanding that she had a serious challenger, too late in anticipating that she woud not dispatch Barack Obama by Super Tuesday (Feb 5), too late in planning for the special challenges of caucus states, too late in channeling her inner-shot-and-a-beer hard hat ... Obama is Reaganesque in two important senses: People like listening to him,and his manner lulls his adversaries into underestimating his sheer toughness-the tempered steel beneath the sleek suits."