Those things with which we are most familiar are often hardest to see. This is perhaps particularly true of such fraught subjects as politics. There we are every day staring at the same people, reading news stories that are virtually indistinguishable from one another, and what do we know?
Our situation is similar to Alice’s in Through the Looking Glass when she finds herself in a shop that seemed full of curious things. “[T]he oddest part of it all was, that whenever she looked hard at any shelf, to make out exactly what it had on it, that particular shelf was always quite empty: though the others round it were crowded as full as they could hold.”
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A good article. I like that Tennessee Star website, good stuff.
ReplyDeleteYou can see that "Good Old Boy" Joe Biden is no longer there. Now he gets easily flustered and frustrated, and the anger and insults come out when he is challenged.
ReplyDeleteWe used to joke last year that Joe will play the tough guy persona in a debate and take a poke at Donald Trump. C'mon Man, that is who Joe Biden is! That was his tough guy leather jacket, aviator glasses image.
If they have a Presidential debate in September, Joe will get frustrated by PDT, and Joe striking him may very well happen.
Flustered? Whaddaya mean flustered? What kind of a crack is that? Are you on cocaine? You're nothing but a lying, dog-faced pony solider!
DeleteI notice you speak with a slight Indian accent. Want a doughnut?
Yesterday, upon the stair,
ReplyDeleteI met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
Oh I wish that man would go away!
Antigonish, slightly modified:
DeleteYesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today;
he must work for the NSA!
Bad enough that I have to listen to this liberal garbage everyday, what really PISSES ME OFF is they think we are that so stupid as to believe it.
ReplyDeleteJoe Yahoodi Biden.
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