Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Hello, Garrison

He Who Saw Hendrix sent me a great link to the current Salon column by Garrison Keillor. I quote: "And it's an amazing country where an Arizona multimillionaire can attack a Chicago South Sider as an elitist and hope to make it stick. The Chicagoan was brought up by a single mom who had big ambitions for him, and he got scholarshipped into Harvard Law and was made president of the law review, all of it on his own hook, whereas the Arizonan is the son of an admiral and was ushered into Annapolis though an indifferent student, much like the Current Occupant, both of them men who are very lucky that their fathers were born before they were. The Chicagoan, who grew up without a father, wrote a book on his own, using a computer. The Arizonan hired people to write his for him. But because the Chicagoan can say what he thinks and make sense and the Arizonan cannot do that for more than 30 seconds at a time, the old guy is hoping to portray the skinny guy as arrogant.

Good luck with that, sir."

Jim has been sending me links to Garrison's column for several months now and I can't recommend it enough. I thought we had run out of ways to point out the foibles of the likes of Bush, Cheney and McCain but Garrison keeps plugging away and expanding the commentary.

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