AH'VE BARELY HEERED OF SUCH AN ORGANIZATION -- Just A Minute Radio for Wednesday, September 23, 2009

            Howdy – OK the drought came back…but the drought is broken again – along with a lot of other things.

 

            The conversation over at Playfair’s Bait Shop and Sushi Bar owned and run by Earl ‘n’ Lester… is about the rain – which has done a whole lot for restoring the water level in the lakes along the Savannah basin – and raising either the grousing or complaining level in polite conversation.

 

            Possibly you noted an end-of-the-summer snow storm in Denver. We blame it on global warming says James Taranto of Opinion Journal output by Dow Jones. But then lots of things get blamed on Al Gore and his crusade. Cause and effect these days are sometimes hard to connect. For instance Mr. Obama seemed hardly to recognize the name “Acorn” when asked about it on TV – when he visited all the weekend news shows *except* for Fox News – thereby granting them the most attention of the group. Seems like in these ‘exciting’ times some people want to take credit for things they really haven’t been close to – and on the other hand people who have worked hand-and-glove with organizations like ‘community organizers’ can’t seem to remember past last week.

 

            Lyndon Johnson had such an ailment: His right hand man – he said – was Bobby Baker from the mountainous part of Pickens County in South Carolina. Later he owned a bar practically in the shadow of the Senate Office buildings and even later a nighclub on the Maryland coast – that got into some fracas over gaming or some such local ordnance, where Bobby had left some “T”’s uncrossed or “I”’s undotted. As the local law enforcement began to put the clamps on Bobby and his operation – the man who had been at LBJ’s elbow when he was majority leader in the Senate – and whom Lyndon heliocoptered in to a campaign stop appearance with at ‘Rocky Bottom,’ SC – Bobby’s home town, describing him as a trusted advisor – “The last man I see before I go to bed at night – and the first in the morning!”   But when the smell of scandal began to waft around Bobby and his night club, a newsman who had the guts to ask President Johnson, “What do you think about the problems Bobby Baker is having?” -- answered ‘snappily’ – “Bobby, who?”

 

            It’s a measure of how fast the ‘chosen’ fall from the boss’s grace when trouble comes. Mr. Obama knows not “Acorn”, and apparently hardly knows Mr. Patterson – the Governor of New York; who’s having a difficult time taking Elliott Spitzer’s place at the top of the ballot since his polling ratings hover in the low 20’s.

 

            How are the mighty fallen – and, How soon they forget. Phrases that come to hand quickly in the world of political misfortune.

 

            Cordially,  IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

AH’VE BARELY HEERED OF SUCH A ORGANIZATION

 

MizP: Just a Minit – Mr. Jack, didja see enny of ‘em big TV News shows on Sunday?

BB: Er how ‘bout Obama bein’ on comedy hour wif Honest Dave Letterbox?

Homer: Or what about tha-ut speechifyin’ at the Newnited nations?

Jack: Obviously you folks have ‘lo-Obotomized.

MizP: Well… th’ folks Ah’ve tawked wif at Earl ‘n’ Lester’s is a-gittin’ mighty tired of hit.

Jack: Of what Miz Pearl?

MizP: Of a-tunin’ on th’ T & V an excep fer rasslin’ er’ Monday nite footbawl…hit’s Obama all th way.

Jack: Hmmm…  does seem a little overdone, does it not?

BB: Th’ folks at th’ Bait Shop and Sushi Bar thinks they done been Carterized!

Jack: Which means?

MizP: Hit means we’s had ‘bout awl we kin stan.  Hit’s beginning ta' sound more like “Br’re Jimmy!”

Homer: Of awl th’ five TV networks he was on Sunday – only one ast him ‘bout Acorn – that community organizin’ bunch.

MizP: An he pertended he din’t even hardly know them – when he left his law job ta' go an work for ‘em.  At shore is a short mem’ry.

Homer: He tole Mr. Stevenopolis tha-ut he wasn’t even aware th’ ACORN group was a-gitting Federal Funding.

BB: Well he shore don’t have a good mem’ry then… tha’s how HE got paid – he tole Steveopolis hit wasn’t sumthin’ he was payin’ a lot of attention to.

MizP: Probly rite… he’s bin too busy strong-armin’ th’ ‘Surance compnies & the Docters.

Jack: Well – remember he’s the President and a pretty busy man.

BB: I’ll ‘gree with tha-ut… he’s got more freqwunt flyer miles on AF One than Boeing Aircraft Co.  

Jack: He had to fly to New York to speak to the UN.

BB: An ta' chat wif David Letterbox.

MizP: Why you cawl him Letterbox?

BB: Cuz tha’s whut he ree-mines me of… when you open the big mouth hit’s mos’times empty.

Homer: If he ‘pears wif them guys more an more he’ll soon be a-gittin’ his own show.

MizP: Wonder whut he’ll cawl hit?

BB: Ah’d vote fer OBAMANIA.

Homer: Th’ theme song cud be “Back Home Again In Obamahoma!”

Jack: <> I’m Jack Buttram

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