roadsmith
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posted on November 28, 2008 07:06:01 PM new
We elected the coolest president in the world
>> By GarrisonKeillor,
>> Syndicated Columnist Published Thursday, November
>> 13, 2008 8:13 PM
>> Be happy, dear hearts, and allow yourselves
>> a few more weeks of quiet exultation. It isn't gloating,
>> it's satisfaction at a job well done. He was a superb
>> candidate, serious, professorial but with a flashing grin
>> and a buoyancy that comes from working out in the gym every
>> morning. He spoke in a genuine voice, not senatorial at all.
>> He accepted adulation gracefully. He brandished his sword
>> against his opponents without mocking or belittling them. He
>> was elegant, unaffected, utterly American, and now (Wow)
>> suddenly America is cool. Chicago is cool. Chicago!!!We
>> threw the dice and we won the jackpot and elected a black
>> guy with a Harvard degree, the middle name Hussein and a
>> sense of humor — he said, "I've got relatives who
>> look like Bernie Mac, and I've got relatives who look
>> like Margaret Thatcher." The French junior minister for
>> human rights said, "On this morning, we all want to be
>> American so we can take a bite of this dream unfolding
>> before our eyes." When was the last time you heard
>> someone from France say they wanted to be American and take
>> a bite of something of ours? Ponder that for a moment.The
>> world expects us to elect pompous yahoos and instead we have
>> us a 47-year-old prince from the prairie who cheerfully ran
>> the race, and when his opponents threw sand at him, he just
>> smiled back. He loves his classy wife and his sweet little
>> daughters. He looks good in the kitchen. He can cook Indian
>> or Chinese but for his girls he will do mac and cheese. At
>> the same time, he knows pop music, American lit and
>> constitutional law. I just can't imagine anybody cooler.
>> Look at a photo of the latest pooh-bah conference — the
>> hausfrau Merkel, the big glum Scotsman, that goofball
>> Berlusconi, Putin with his B-movie bad-boy scowl, and
>> Sarkozy, who looks like a district manager for Avis — you
>> put Barack in that bunch and he will shine.It feels good to
>> be cool and all of us can share in that, even sour old
>> right-wingers and embittered blottoheads. Next time you fly
>> to Heathrow and hand your passport to the man with the
>> badge, he's going to see "United States of
>> America" and look up and grin. Even if you worship in
>> the church of Fox, everyone you meet overseas is going to
>> ask you about Obama and you may as well say you voted for
>> him because he is your line of credit over there.And the
>> coolest thing about him is the fact that back in the early
>> '90s, given a book contract after the hoo-ha about his
>> becoming the First Black Editor of the Harvard Law Review,
>> instead of writing the basic exploitation book he
>> could've written, he put his head down and worked hard
>> and wrote a good book, an honest one, which, since his rise
>> in politics, has earned the Obamas enough to buy a nice
>> house and put money in the bank. A successful American
>> entrepreneur.Our hero who galloped to victory has inherited
>> a gigantic mess. The country is sunk in debt. The Treasury
>> announced it must borrow $550-billion to get the government
>> through the fourth quarter, more than the entire deficit for
>> 2008, so he will have to raise taxes and not only on bankers
>> and lumber barons. His promise never to raise the retirement
>> age is not a good idea. Whatever he promised the Iowa
>> farmers about subsidizing ethanol is best forgotten at this
>> point. We may not be getting our National Health Service
>> cards anytime soon. And so on.So enjoy the afterglow of the
>> election awhile longer. We all walk taller this fall. People
>> in Copenhagen and Stockholm are sending congratulatory
>> e-mails — imagine! We are being admired by Danes and
>> Swedes! And Chicago becomes The First City. Step aside, San
>> Francisco. Shut up, New York. The Midwest is cool now. The
>> mind reels. Have a good day.©
>> Garrison Keillor.
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mcjane
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posted on December 2, 2008 10:30:40 PM new
Makes you feel good to read this. Kennedy was popular because he made us feel good.
I think those days are coming again.
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