Et tu, George McGovern? After Tuesday's balloting, the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate announced his support for Barack Obama and expressed hope for an "early decision" on the nomination.
But as a former senator from South Dakota, why would he want to deny his state's chance for a place in the sun, or at least on cable TV, for its June 3rd primary?
South Dakota gets so little attention, as I learned when I was stationed there during World War II in Rapid City, a sleepy place in the Black Hills, not far from Deadwood, where Wild Bill Hickock was shot in the back holding aces and eights. His death hand was framed in the local saloon where I played poker with ranchers and Native Americans, who were still called Indians in those days.
On the trip from the air base, our bus would pass Mt. Rushmore with huge sculptures of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln watching over a scrubby landscape.
Only old movies commemorate those places these days, with Gary Cooper playing Wild Bill in "The Plainsman" and Cary Grant scrambling over those big faces in Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest."
Why would McGovern want to deny Hillary and Bill and Barack a chance to reenact those classic American scenes and help the tourist trade this summer?
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Thursday, May 08, 2008
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Bush on Mt. Rushmore
The George W. Bush Afterlife Society will please come to order. First, the invocation from Rabbi Joe Lieberman:
“(H)e will be judged as a president who saw the threat, and in the midst of an unpopular war, he stuck with it...his ratings among the historians will be greater than his ratings in the polls today.”
The Reverend Rush Limbaugh rises to expand on this theme in today’s sermon:
“Long after we’re all dead and gone, when historians who are not yet born begin to write about this era, they’re going to place George Bush in the upper echelon of presidents who had a great vision for America.”
And then the featured speaker, the theologian and scholar at the American Enterprise Institute Michael Novak, who had a few words to say about the honoree:
"Faith is not enough by itself because there are a lot of people who have faith but weak hearts. But his faith is very strong. He seeks guidance, like every other president does, in prayer. And that means trying to be sure he's doing the right thing. And if you've got that set, all the criticism, it doesn't faze you very much. You're answering to God."
Amen. At this point, members will pray for the historians who answered a survey of the History News Network--338 heretics said they believed President Bush is failing, while 77 said he is succeeding. Fifty heathen thought he was the worst president ever, worse than Buchanan. We will pray for enlightment for these lost souls.
The final item on the agenda this evening will be a report from the Committee to Raise Funds for the George W. Bush Sculpture on Mt. Rushmore
“(H)e will be judged as a president who saw the threat, and in the midst of an unpopular war, he stuck with it...his ratings among the historians will be greater than his ratings in the polls today.”
The Reverend Rush Limbaugh rises to expand on this theme in today’s sermon:
“Long after we’re all dead and gone, when historians who are not yet born begin to write about this era, they’re going to place George Bush in the upper echelon of presidents who had a great vision for America.”
And then the featured speaker, the theologian and scholar at the American Enterprise Institute Michael Novak, who had a few words to say about the honoree:
"Faith is not enough by itself because there are a lot of people who have faith but weak hearts. But his faith is very strong. He seeks guidance, like every other president does, in prayer. And that means trying to be sure he's doing the right thing. And if you've got that set, all the criticism, it doesn't faze you very much. You're answering to God."
Amen. At this point, members will pray for the historians who answered a survey of the History News Network--338 heretics said they believed President Bush is failing, while 77 said he is succeeding. Fifty heathen thought he was the worst president ever, worse than Buchanan. We will pray for enlightment for these lost souls.
The final item on the agenda this evening will be a report from the Committee to Raise Funds for the George W. Bush Sculpture on Mt. Rushmore
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