Chronicle of a journey from youthful
know-it-all to old-fart astonishment.
Trust a Shrink just once: Senator McCain's thankful
nuzzling of George W. Bush's clavical area speaks far more to plain old, Frotteurism than passing the Conservative Torch to a new Energizer Bunny. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frotteurism. If Dr. Phil's recent "Crisis Intervention" in the truly sad life of Britney Spears seemed.....well, gross, be assured the Revelator feels your disgust. Some of us actually have standards and try to live them - professionally and personally. John Cleese once put it right IMO: "Treat a psychologist like you'd treat a plumber."
So meet Andrew Bacevich, who this aged "Red Diaper Baby" woulda voted for from my first C-SPAN experience. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Bacevich. Reading his bio you'd wonder how this guy calls himself a Conservative. Yesterday I wrote of my dad, a lifelong Progressive, who confounded me by professing respect for Senator Robert Taft [Mr. Republican] from Ohio. "He's an honest man," said dad incredulous that I'd ask a stump-dumb question like that. "I hate his [Taft-Hartley] politics but he's a decent, pricipled man who won't sell out." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft-Hartley_Act.
Won't-Sell-Out sounds so...quaint. "Quaint" in the same sense Alberto Gonzales used the word to weasel around the Constitition to justify getting hospitalized, drugged, temporarily sane AG John Ashcroft to sign-off on another Chancellor Cheney laff-riot [sic]
No matter: Here's Bacevich in the latest American Conservative on why Obama's the "Right Choice." This is bound to really piss-off the Flat-Earth ObaManiacs but what the hell. I pack a Stun-Gun 24/7.
http://www.amconmag.com/2008/2008_03_24/article.html
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