Christmas Gifts
December 20th, 2007If you’re wondering what you can get me for Christmas Dear Reader (and I know you are), here’s what you can do: take a hungry person out to lunch. Doesn’t have to be anything extravagent. Could be fastfood or Olive Garden or cafe — just food. That is a suggestion given me by someone who has given me one of the greatest opportunities in my life, and it is the Christmas gift I want as well, my Dear Reader.
Or you could make a Bloomberg/Hagel Presidential campaign happen. It’s breathing, and the two parties are talking extensively, so if you want to give me a Christmas gift with stocking stuffing, here’s your chance. (I am genuinely interested in a Bloomberg/Hagel run. I don’t believe they could win but a great third party campaign, any great third party campaign, runs on a movement that eventually triumphs. If that is what these men can do, and it is if they want, then I am all for their run. At the least, it’ll make the campaign even more fascinating.)
Another gift you could give me, and the world, would be a little backbone for the Presidential candidates. A little candor. A little integrity. A little belief in something. That’s about the only thing I admire about George Bush, you know. He truly believes in what he fights for and so he fights for what he believes. Of course, that’s different when he’s President and not a candidate, but you get what I mean. It’s just a travesty that Barack Obama voted many times in his career, “Present” instead of aye or nay to avoid taking a stand. What kind of garbage is that? How can you respect him as a candidate? And that goes for the other candidates, as well, with their pollsters and media men.