Al Gore has a Nobel and an Oscar, but this compromise candidate has 16 Clios, innumerable Cannes Lions, untold numbers of Andy and Effie awards, One Show Golds and Silvers, and a Webelos badge.
If Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton step aside, peace will reign in the one place in America where strife this summer seems to be absolutely certain, Denver, Colorado in the convention hall when the Obama delegates clash with the Clinton delegates in fiery floor demonstrations not seen since Lemon Pledge went up against Mr. Clean.
People can vote for me or against me without fear for a second that they will be called racists, sexists, ageists, communists, fascists, sedevacantists, atheists, syndicalists, Calvinists, nominalists or positivists. All the isms (liberalism, conservatism, progressivism, monism, dualism, monarchism, theism) fall by the wayside when a candidate such as I who stands for nothing stands up for his party.
As President William Jefferson Clinton said, “It all depends on your definition of the word ‘ism’.” Clinton, contrary to popular myth populated by a popular black woman writer, was not the first African American President; he was, though, the first Roman Catholic President, having attended parochial school (the only Chief Executive to do so) in Little Rock and a Jesuit University (also the only President to do so). His formulations (“I didn’t inhale” and “I never had sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky” are perfect examples of the casuistry that moral theologians would pose to Catechetical classes back when President Clinton was in school and the Vatican councils had not changed moral course.
Compare my pastor with Obama’s pastor. It’s easy to do since I don’t have a pastor at the present time, and the last time I did have one, he seemed more concerned with announcing Bingo night and the hours for Novena than surveying the American scene.
Compare, too, my near-death military experiences with Clinton. It’s easy to do since the closest I have come to battle was going to San Antonio in the 1970’s and just missing the siege of the Alamo by a hundred and forty years. I also experienced Pearl Harbor in 1973, and I could feel the thunder of warplanes sweeping over our tour boat 32 years after The Day That Would Live In Infamy. The boat, too, I felt seemed to be observed by many Japanese fifth columnists posing as Japanese tourists.
My slogan:
Change you won’t notice.
Compromise is kinda like that.
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