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It’s Bill’s world that we live in. It’s all about Bill.
That may be a harsh thing to say about our former President, Bill Clinton, but I can’t help but think that it’s how he sees it. When he has a score to settle, everyone else had better damned well look out.
This is a follow-up to today’s post on how nooze is either ignored or manufactured. In the middle of primary season, what could be better than the manufactured nooze of polling?
The day was just like many others. I was in the lab, setting up for a difficult titration that would take me hours to perform carefully. The work was absorbing and isolating, and I was lost in it. Suddenly, gingerly, Valerie walked into the lab without slipping on her protective goggles. She spoke carefully and quietly in a voice that slipped into my subconscious before it was audible.
As much as I hate the process, the presidential campaign is compelling. After all, whoever gets through this gets a chance to run a great nation right at the moment in history when it looks like it has “Fall of Rome II: The Wrath of the Con” written all over it. Why someone would want the job, I don’t know, but one of these players will be our next President.
Watching coverage of the Iowa caucuses, and the speeches each candidate is obliged to give the cameras, I am reminded of an old-timey American tradition. No, it has nothing to do with great leaders of the past; their stately images seem long gone. The process reminds me much more of the Golden Age of Cartoons, from the 1930s.
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 