CARNEY CAPERS You, perhaps, recall quite well the carnival capers attitudewhich loomed so large during the hectic days of the Iowa Primary caucus gathering. Then, New Hampshire came along as a kind of let-down for some. It was much tamer. Many seemed to feel relieved, I think, glad that the carnival aspects had been eliminated.
It was soothing to once again see politicians engaged in flipping hotcakes above a griddle or rearranging hot dogs and hamburgers on a smoky grill. Too many Americans seem to expect their candidates to be become in such active and to take part in local problems and concerns, but the average performance rating of most political aspirants is on the low side.
The semi-historical “laugh” given by Vermont's Governor was memorable moment of this phase. It was cry, to me rather than the laugh TV imitators have made seem to have been. It was ,in my opinion more a cry for help than a laugh of any kind. It was a call for assistance from a man on the edge of a threatening abyss. It was not like one of TV's so-called “reality” shows. It was not faked in its original form. The trapped man was speaking to the entire nation, not to just one faction or a narrow part of that in fact. It was the cumulative result of a series of judgments made by one man which showed us just how far that man could be pushed...either by himself or by others. The hysterically uttered series of numbers and days which followed it were even more hysterical in sound and this tone dragged him back to a saner level.
We should exercise special care in choosing our future leaders that we do not cause them to realize that there is very little one man can do to change our set ways of living.
Modify? Yes. Change? No.
A.L.M. November 19 , 2005 [c326wds]
