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Drawbacks of BeingI'm a Cleveland, Ohio-based writer, editor and writing coach, with more than 25 years of experience, including stints in Chicago and Washington, D.C. My work has appeared in more than 100 print and online publications, from the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor to local and regional publications. My work has been recognized by awards (including an Emmy) from four journalism groups.
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If only Al had a writer in his head, or at least someone who could steal lines from scripts. I'd have suggested this from "Raising Arizona:"
"[And] If a frog had wings, it wouldn't bump its ass a- hoppin'."
As fine a catch-all response to idiocy as anyone could want.
Of course, no one, including Gore, has your vast encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture, from which to pull the perfect bon mot. The rest of us are left resorting to bannister comebacks. You know, the kind you mutter silently to yourself as you climb the stairs, thinking about how perfect it would have been if you had thought to say this...
Oh, I totally mutter the banister stuff after the fact, usually the morning after as I speak into the showerhead. Been doing it my whole life. I think it's why I became a writer.
That made me laugh, TJ. I think you're right. Unlike extemporaneous speakers, we get to, as a Congressman would say, "revise and extend our remarks."
Ha! Poor OLD Al.
I still say he'll pull through in the end, or he's doing something on the sly to support his candidate.
It'll be interesting to see how that plays out, Michelle. I wouldn't be surprised if an Obama Administration (though I'm fairly sure there won't be one for quite some time) didn't offer him a job such as U.N. Ambassador, or perhaps Sect. of State, where he could be put to maximum use. But it's hard being an almost-president, because everything else pales in comparison. And he's also having a lot more fun and making a lot more money than he would or could in office, so I think his window of public service--at least traditional public service--has probably closed.
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