Guess Who?

From Garrison Keillor's Homegrown Democrat:

A man with almost nothing admirable in his resume. He has been cruelly exposed as incompetent, inarticulate, and dishonest. His innattention is remarkable. He sat and was briefed on the danger of a hurricane wiping out a major American city, and without asking a single question, he got up from the table and walked away and resumed his monthlong vacation. He played guitar as New Orleans was flooded. It took him four days to realize he ought to pay attention. When the tsunami killed a hundred thousand people in southeast Asia, he was on vacation and it took him seventy-two hours to issue a statement of sympathy. A small petulant man who keeps diminishing with time . . .


It's not a puzzle of course, just a reminder of why I really hate these SOBs.

One quibble: he didn't "realize" anything. The time lags were the time lags before his sychophants dared to interrupt his vacation to tell him that he had better pay attention.

When I was a kid, my father was active in Democratic politics, so I got to know many of the local and state politicos. I was always impressed by their humility, humor, and generosity of impulse. Later in life, a neighbor was elected to the legislature as a Republican. He invited us to his victory party, and I wondered if it would be like those parties of my youth. In fact, nearly everybody there was one of those superficial, snobbish, grasping, and nasty people who fill the upper reaches of fraternity and sorority houses.

It's not just prejudice that makes me hate Republicans - they really are bad people.

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