WHERE ARE ALL THE CELOPHANE BAGS? - JUST A MINUTE RADIO for Tuesday 110405

Hard to believe the bright day today after the dunking we got late last night.

 

But here we are again on the first day of the NEW AND IMPROVED “I WANT TO BE PRESIDENT FOR FOUR MORE YEARS!” CAMPAIGN OF Mr. Barack Hussein Obama!  Shades of Bro. Jimmy Carter. Do we really have to be drug through that knothole again? Will we never learn?

 

The speculation is – probably with a reasonable foundation – that he *will* be able to raise one billion for his campaign for the first time in History.  Whew – what a relief.  I thought he might need to enlist the help of ACORN to accomplish that – but it appears it will only need the AFL-CIO group – a skillion other special interest groups including all the unions and left-leaning cohesions that are able to rub two nickels together after they pay their leaders salaries that rival those ot the President and a BIG chunk of the executive salaries in the land.

 

I too have been involved in raising money for a Presidential run… The year was 1964 and a somewhat unknown western Senator from Arizona decided he might as well run. That year the rules that were in place prevented such organizations from raising and spending more than ‘one million dollars’ for the campaign – so keepers of the rules were “forced” to create a ‘new’ campaign committee each time the contribution plate’s pile approached one million.  My understanding is they had to create 13 of those committees to “obey the rules.”

 

My goodness… that would hardly pay the expenses of just getting your group’s feet on the ground in Iowa now. I don’t think it’s that campaigns cost more… it’s just they have people who are more efficient at spending (they’ve taken a *crash* course called “How to Succeed in Government Without Really Trying.”  It’s a marvelous stimulus for unemployed bureaucrats which has caused a real shortening of the unemployment lines – you’ll notice the drop in numbers already. What you don’t notice is how much those fortunate people are who are just shouting hallelujah’s to the heavens because they’ve found a job!  Fortunately the American public has become inured to such things and BIG TIME government jobs rarely turn on who raises the most money. (shuuush - not) So we have very little to worry about.  (Indeed we have very little to worry with.)

 

Well – no need to be in a big hurry. It will take us only about 18 months until the next presidential election – which – if the creeks don’t rise, will bring us out on election day of 2012 with many, many organizations claiming the credit for salvaging the Republic from an inglorious end – no matter whose name is in the final winners’ bracket. I can hardly wait… but right now I think I’ll take a nap.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

“JUST A MINUTE”

WHERE ARE ALL THE CELOPHANE BAGS?

            Just a Minute: When President Franklin Roosevelt announced he was running for an unprecedented fourth term – one of the Washington dailies could not resist running this lead:  “Today President Roosevelt let the cat out of the cellophane bag.

          Candidate Obama’s standard stump speech” is built around “hope and change” – his autobiography carries the title “The Audacity of Hope.” However it’s not as if the word has simply gathered dust -- President Clinton in his first climb toward the White House presented himself to the electorate as “the man from Hope.”

          Still there are others uses for the terms in campaigns like: “I sure hope we won’t have to put up with his golf playing or climbing aboard Air Force One hoping someone will look after things while he’s away.”

          Perhaps we could hope one of the new House members would craft an “anti-balderdash law” making it a punishable offense to use the same word more than three times a minute while running for elective office.

          I sure hope so! <> I’m Jack Buttram

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