I'm so glad I wasn't seized last night, or this morning, by the mad urge to take to keyboard or drink against competitive madness. Instead, I'm letting that two-hour stage of fools and its haunting by this nation's worst-ever foreign-policy nightmares -- its Wolfowitzes and Addingtons -- pass like a Dickensian "undigested bit of meat, a blot of mustard ..."
The horror was unmitigated -- unmitigatable -- by the occasional flickers of enlightenment from Paul and Huntsman. For they, in their primary unplausibility, were even less real than the ghosts of Bush's past: the unrehabilitated Wolfowitzes, for sure, but mostly the jingoistic boneheads who would have us relive, over and over, the muscular arrogance of neoconservative certainty.
Is despair a mortal sin? I don't know. I'm not up on my Catholic doctrine, although it's not my doctrine. Yet despair is all I could feel last night, watching that monstrous beauty pageant of Obama derangement syndrome, to employ an accurate cliche, in which even the righteous extermination of Osama bin Laden possessed a lamentable downside.
Well, I shan't go on. I'm supposed to be relaxing this week. Better to just flush the entire, ghoulish experience through my alimentary canal and be done with it. Only to resicken, next week.
I agree PM. They are all horrible, ridiculous and disgusting individuals and I don't know what will happen should President Obama not be re-elected. I don't see that happening, but since the FOX viewers are dumber than dirt, and don't know what's going on, even less than those who watch the news, they could be stupid enough to vote for any of these idiots for President because they hate it that a black man is President. There just has to be more of us with sane minds out there to re-elect President Obama.
Posted by: Betsy | November 23, 2011 at 08:57 AM
I meant even less than those who "don't" watch the news. Oops.
Posted by: Betsy | November 23, 2011 at 08:58 AM
Dear, Phil- You have the most compassionate of souls. If not, you would not be sacrificing your mental health, on this of all weeks, to bring us your thoughts.
Unplug, Buddy and soak up a monumental dose of love.
Sending the best vibes your way.
Posted by: Susan Zoon | November 23, 2011 at 02:11 PM
My advice: don't watch too many of these. That will reduce the symptoms you describe.
Posted by: Joe Markowitz | November 23, 2011 at 10:37 PM
O.K.,so I watched just a part of this debacle on line and thought...oh my gosh P.M. is missing this, thank goodness. Take Susan's advise and unplug, P.M. these idiots are not going anywhere soon! Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Posted by: SueMe | November 25, 2011 at 12:29 AM
Hope you had a soul restoring Thanksgiving. As a nominal Jesuit educated Catholic much was burned into my memory that I had rather allocated to better uses but still remains when questions of dogma arise. You're treading into treacherous grounds when indulging in despair from a Catholic point of view. You're being rational from a rational point of view. The black humor of these festivals of ignorance seems to elude you. That's a shame. This is a rare treat that so many candidates remain so close in the polls and while Obama derangement syndrome is to be expected, the to the death cage match these people must ultimately undertake is something I do not want to miss. Tell you what, you take a break and we'll call you when the good stuff happens.
Posted by: Peter G | November 27, 2011 at 03:01 PM