Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Lore And Odor

"Lore and Odor!" How 'bout that as a title for Fred Thompson's new, ready-for-prime-time show. Or just a description of his "keynote" speech, perhaps.

A former candidate in this year's Republican presidential primaries and a guy who might well have been featured in some one's anti-celebrity ads ( a little too second-rate to be seen with Angelina but right on the mark for a Paris Hilton spot), Thompson donned the greasepaint once again in praise of former rival, John McCain.

His acting was, as usual, sub par.

A man with a J.D. degree from Vanderbilt and currently a Washington lobbyist, you wouldn't think old Fred would be so apt to welcome the election of a "maverick" (McCain) and a potential "reformist" (Palin) who are coming to Washington to "irritate the alligators" and "drain the swamp." You'd think that, being a lawyer and a lobbyist Mr. Thompson would be a little more protective of his natural habitat.

You'd also think that a guy with a law degree from Vandy and a high-powered, multi-digit income might be too embarrassed to assume some "aw-shucks" Uncle Fred persona at a time when he's not supposed to be playacting and when he's asking the American people to trust what he has to say. But take a look at the speech. It's full of water and buckets and swamps--an exotic dancer named "Marie, the Flame of Florida," field-dressing a moose --and it even gives a tip of the cap to good old Teddy Roosevelt who, after all, ran a few percentage points ahead of Fred in this year's primaries. But, hey, didn't everybody?

Don't be too hard on old Fred, though. He did give a pretty accurate accounting of the serious problems now facing our country. "Terrorists, rogue nations developing nuclear weapons, an increasingly belligerent Russia, intensifying competition from China, spending at home [not to mention in Iraq] that threatens to bankrupt future generations, [and] for decades an expanding government, increasingly wasteful and too often incompetent."

What he failed to say is that most of these problems are as a result of the "leadership" of George Bush and Republican control of both houses of Congress and that one of the "alligators" who worked their little "swamp," and an old bellowing bull one at that, was none other than Senator John Sidney McCain.

Aw, shucks! Lore and odor, anyone?

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