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This post comes to you from the balmy climes of northwestern Illinois. I’m at the farm, where just past noon today, it reached a scorching high of 8.5°F (-13°C).
Perhaps it’s brain freeze, but it occurs to me that tomorrow, on the other side of the Mississippi River, at least some Iowans will be spending their Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day honoring the legendary civil rights leader by deciding which white guy they want to become the leader of the free world.
I’m speaking, of course of the Iowa Caucus, where this year, Iowans will give one candidate from the Democratic Party a push forward on the race to replace Dubya in the Oval Office.
I haven’t yet made up my mind about the Democratic candidates. I do know this, though—John Kerry has an unusually and somewhat freakishly elongated face.
John Kerry’s Vietnam War record is apparently well-documented in the book Tour of Duty, and I can only hope that the next book chronicling Kerry’s history focuses on the years he spent pioneering a promising but ultimately unsuccessful beauty procedure—the windtunnel facial.
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heisenberg
Comment posted at 10:06 on Tuesday, January 20, 2004
1. So, 8.5 degrees. That’s + 8.5. No big thing. We in Minnesota take pride in being almost as cold as Fargo.
2.Giving Sharpton and Mosley-Braun no chance?
3. “Free world”? You are letting them define the semantics of discussion - just like letting the anti-abortion folks call themselves “pro-life.”
4. I lean toward Dean. Because of his wife. She helps put smiling-Laura in perspective. She wears the blue-jeans in the family, and stays at home where she belongs—tending her patients, rather than standing next to “the guy” and looking vapid. None of the Dem. candidates have a stinking ranch in Texas, and that’s a plus for the bunch of them.
5. If you want to vote for a face, vote for Clark. He has as white and Aryan a face as any of them. Or Gephart. He is the one who looks like the ex-SEAL, more than Kerry. He has an I’d-rather-grab-your-windpipe-and-rip-it-out-and-eat-it-instead-of-looking-at-you look, even when at a home for the elderly, talking about medical care.
6. Does this mean you are putting a new spin on “Face the Nation”?
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Comment posted at 18:42 on Thursday, January 22, 2004
Heisenberg,
<ol><li>8.5° is a big thing. It might not be the coldest, but I don’t care where you’re from—if you’re human, that’s cold.</li><li>Not in Iowa, anyway (neither participated). Didn’t Mosley-Braun drop out?</li><li>Meant sarcastically.</li><li>I like things about Dean—his take on healthcare, his independent wife perhaps chief among the things about him I find appealing.</li><li>You’re right, Kerry doesn’t look like an ex-SEAL. He looks like an ex-sea cucumber.</li><li>Not a new spin. A new pull.</li></ol>
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Comment posted at 15:38 on Friday, January 23, 2004
Kerry does have one long-ass face. Not that it determines whether I’d vote for him or not. But man, he’s really a gaunt, skeletal looking freak.
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heisenberg
Comment posted at 11:00 on Sunday, January 25, 2004
bakerm45, if the Dems run a convicted child molester, we would probably all vote for him, wierd face, whatever, given the 50ish-frat-boy-proud-of-my-C-grade-point-average-and-boy-did-I-drink-my-way-through-Yale-after-dad-pulled-strings-getting-me-in-as-with-the-Texas-national-guard-mean-and-smug face we are already too, too famliar with; and which we’d have to face for four more years, barring a change for the better. Four years of that kind of “hard time” is hard enough. Say no to eight. I guess the bottom line is Kerry has an unusual narrow face and Bush has an unusually narrow mind.
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