Stupor Tuesday
And now for some real sport…
I started blogging about baseball because I knew if I blogged about politics I would find trouble. Considering the **** I've put up with from hot dog vendors peddling women's clothing, though, I sometimes wonder if I shouldn't have just bothered with something a little more meaningful. I find a lot of similarities between baseball fandom and political junkie-ism, except baseball still doesn't have a TV channel.
My political addiction started back in the sixties, with Nixon, forty years ago. Ironically this is said to be the most important election in U.S. History since 1968. I can say without reservation this is the most interesting presidential race in my time, almost like the perfect storm. I knew it would be back in 2000, knowing Hillary was preparing for a run and the outhouse was going to explode. Nobody could have predicted the Kennedy worshipping Clintons, however, would run into Kennedy reincarnated as Barack Obama. Making him black was an absolutely filthy trick, whether done by fate or the Clintons. Is Machiavelli God? Or is God Machiavellian? Depends on what the meaning of is, is, I suppose. Whatever else can be said of the Clintons (and a lot can be said), they make for marvelous political theater.
Keep your pants zipped. You won't want to miss this.
I am oddly fascinated by the elections and rather surprised to find I'm a minority amongst my acquaintances who feel that way. Since my parents and grandparents were raised under matial law, the right to vote is a precious luxury for us. And the right to vote in a time when the results are absolutely unpredictable is a rare honor and event.
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J,
Since Watergate there seemed to be a general diminishing of participation in the election process. One of the things that is exciting about Obama is he seems to be lighting up the young people, and bringing new people into the process.
Where were your parents and grandparents raised? You are right, people don't appreciate something until it is taken away.
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My family is Taiwanese... although one wouldn't be able to tell with my younger brother. if it weren't for his skin color, he exemplifies the expression "American as American pie"! How quickly people change and adapt. I truly appreciated your post about the New Year. Happy New Year to you, too
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