Certain Trumpets
Yesterday I heard Garrison Keillor work the Prairie Home Companion audience into an absolute frenzy. To someone who didn't happen to hear it, it is probably not clear what I mean by a frenzy. Imagine, if you have the stomach for it, Justin Timberlake taking his shirt off in front of 50,000 adolescent fans...
Garrison sparked this reaction simply by singing a spoof that went "Where Have All the <Democrats> Gone?" It was about par for Garrison Keillor songs. I think that the best line was "We're in the GOP, where the food and drinks are free." Nevertheless, the response was extraordinary. People are clearly hungry for a someone to voice their discontent, even if that person is a mild-mannered Norwegian-Minnesotan.
There aren't a lot of liberal "certain trumpets" out there now. Howard Dean's getting a lot of love, but I think that his "straight talk" reputation is overrated. What the media calls straight talk is really just another style anyway. When he is talking about Iraq, Dean sounds as mealy-mouthed as anyone. Maybe Saddam was a bad guy... I dunno... You tell me...
Clinton had some warm comments about Wesley Clark. He seems to have a strong personality, but I am not quite ready to call him a liberal. (I think we can safely assume that he is not a leftist.) The first criterion for a candidate is clearly cajones. Gore is, forgive me, such a pussy that he apologized for "using the words 'invented the Internet'". If you followed the story at all closely, you know that he did not, in fact, use those words. He also apologized about that damn desk in Florida. Ever heard Bush apologize for anything? Not bloody likely. Any Democratic candidate for apologizes for something should lose fifty delegates.
Don't me wrong; I'm not looking for a macho asshole here. But someone who is running for president should have a healthy sense of self-esteem. Anyone who withers under attack is going to be a goner in the general election.
Woody
10:36:37 PM 
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