Parenti asked us how could a political pundit plug "Waiting for Yesterday (Pages from a Street Kid's Life)" and we explained that the final results of the Presidential Election contest between Hillary and JEB are more than a hundred weeks away and that we can't possibly use just that one topic every week from now until Election Day in 2016.
Republicans and any Democrats who would support an effort to impeach Obama because of the prisoner exchange fiasco should think long and hard about the long term effect such that historic move would cause. The 2016 Presidential Election would not be the epic battle of a chance for a woman to make American history vs. a restoration drama for the Bush Dynasty; it would become a rather mundane effort for the new President (Joseph Biden) to seek re-election. Would the use of the word "re-election" be valid?
If the Republicans decide to impeach the President, perhaps we can convince the Columbian to go big and give out a free cup each week to the politician who makes either the dumbest statement or does the stupidest thing. Perhaps the awarding weekly of a "Don't Do Stupid Stuff" cup could become the modern equivalent of the old "Fickle Finger of Fate" award that was a regular feature on the TV show "Laugh-In"?
Full disclosure note: While in grade school, one teacher proclaimed that anyone in the room could grow up to become President of the United States and if that happened during our first grade or second grade year, and if our classmate Joe Biden wasn't home sick that patriotic bit of enthusiasm for the potential for people living in the land of opportunity, could very well turn into a noteworthy bit of political forecasting.
On page 109 of "History as Mystery," Michael Parenti wrote: "Much of political life involves the rational manipulation of irrational sentiments by ruling elites."
The disk jockey wanted to play the biggest hit done by a long (real long) list of Italian American singers, but we succeeded in using the Republican verbal cudgel for obstreperous employees ("Do you like getting your weekly paycheck?") and he settled for playing all16 tracks on the Capital Records "Best of Dean Martin" CD. We have to go find some quality spumoni (probably over in Frisco). Have a "Volare" type week.
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