It’s a long road that has no turning – and that’s about how we’re feeling when we know we’re still too many months in this ‘race’ that seems like a herd of turtles.
Ah – a longing for the good old days when the lack of air conditioning meant you just could stand it in the ‘hot and sticky’ of campaigning only so long. Now…it’s a year ‘round sport… starts sometime in the cold weather and goes for nearly two years. Arggghhh…
Ah well… only thing to do is enjoy the scenery.
Time’s a-wastin’ as ‘Snuffy Smith’ used to opine in the funnies and the black and white comics. Trouble is it’s hardly any entertainment except in the very early days of the state fairs like out in the Midwest –
Well, you can’t crank up the calendar – you can just wish your way through it, or take off a week and go to the beach or the lake or the mountains. It’s going to be a long hot summer to get through and not a lot of fun doing it. It’s rather like sitting through a marathon of ‘watching the pot’ – which in the wisdom of the “Old Farmer” never boils if you’re looking dead at it.
We’re just going to have to invent some kind of political tiddledee winks that’ll get us through these long dry spells when there’s not much going on and everybody’s bemoaning it.
So to relieve the pressure on this Monday we’ll just quietly fold our banner for the time being and hope to see you shortly when there’s something more interesting happening than working a jig-saw puzzle or getting sunburned at the beach… it’s that time again.
Thanks for sticking with us this long.
All the best – Cordially IN HIM
Jack Buttram
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Just a Minute: Over the weekend Peggy Noonan – columnist for the Wall Street Journal -- asked the question under the headline of ‘A Bush League President:
“Did you like the past four years? Good, you can get four more.
“Do the President and his people strike you as competent? If so, you can renew his contract, and he will renew theirs.
“If you don’t want to re-hire him you will look to the other guy. Does he look credible, a possible president? Then you can hire him.
Republicans should cheer up.”
Hmmm. – Some times Ms. Noonan simply relishes being blunt. Here’s how she describes Obama’s style: “… he seems like a man distracted as if he’s holding a private conversation in his head “or is “constantly dribbling away the punch line.” Perhaps he’s noticing the size of the crowd and wishing the front row would start fainting again like they used to.” But she’s polite, not wishing to be rude.
Well, I’m with her – just so we don’t have to go through another four years with Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton.
<> I’m Jack Buttram.
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