"We have also come to a point in this dark age where there is not only no hero in view but no alternative road unblocked." President Jonah, by Gore Vidal
I woke up this morning thinking of Kerry's bravery and why we seem not to have one without a lot of bagage (i know this is debateable, but...) in the eyes of normal corp/MSM/big media consumers, like Kennedy, Clinton, Gore, Dean, Kerry. I think we know the reasons for this.
I could swear that the afternoon I found out about Wellstone's death, the radio was on and I was still half asleep, napping or just getting up... and the tease/list of up coming stories said, "US Senator dies in plane crash, more in a moment" I think I thought to myself, Oh god, not Wellstone! Then the story confirmed my worst fear. I may be remembering that more dramaticly but that's how I think of that day.
Then I found this great artical by Gore Vidal, it's a must read.
http://www.alternet.org/...
..."Originally, God wanted Jonah to give hell to Nineveh, whose people, God noted disdainfully, "cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand," so like the people of Baghdad who cannot fathom what democracy has to do with their destruction by the Cheney-Bush cabal. But the analogy becomes eerily precise when it comes to the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico at a time when a president is not only incompetent but plainly jinxed by whatever faith he cringes before. Witness the ongoing screw-up of prescription drugs.
Who knows what other disasters are in store for us thanks to the curse he is under? As the sailors fed the original Jonah to a whale, thus lifting the storm that was about to drown them, perhaps we the people can persuade President Jonah to retire to his other Eden in Crawford, Texas, taking his jinx with him. We deserve a rest. Plainly, so does he. Look at Nixon's radiant features after his resignation! One can see former President Jonah in his sumptuous library happily catering to faith-based fans with animated scriptures rooted in "The Simpsons."
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...When the admirable Tiberius (he has had an undeserved bad press), upon becoming emperor, received a message from the Senate in which the conscript fathers assured him that whatever legislation he wanted would be automatically passed by them, he sent back word that this was outrageous. "Suppose the emperor is ill or mad or incompetent?" He returned their message. They sent it again. His response: "How eager you are to be slaves."