According to Howie Klein at DownWithTyranny!:
This morning I woke up and heard partisan gladiators for the Republican Party, Inc — Pat Buchanan, Rudy Giuliani and Joe Scarborough — talking about how Sarah Palin had passed a test and proven she had what it takes to be president. She proved no such thing. She proved she could do a reasonable impression of an ill-tempered mynah bird and the only thing that was proven is that Pat Buchanan, Rudy Giuliani and Joe Scarborough would rather see our country continue down the road to ruin than see Barack Obama as president.
The whole Infotainment/reality show mentality has trivialized American democracy. Why not elect George W. Bush? Why not elect a trained mynah bird?
I happened across a CD “Politics, Live” by Tom Paxton with several still topical tunes, even while being very dated…
“I am changing my name to ‘Chrysler”
“On the good ship I’ve got mine”
“One million lawyers” …
others snip at Carter, Gary Hart, Lyndon Johnson and Viet nam, Spiro Agnew….
Bad person that am, I would vote for the trained mynah bird…as long as I know what it was trained to say, words like “veto that”, “balanced budgets”, “smaller government”. Probably safer than any of the candidates, main or alternate parties.
les
October 3rd, 2008