I’m trying to decide how I would feel if Al Gore were still Vice President and he’d shot a fellow hunter on a quail hunt in our homeland Tennessee. It’s hard, because straight-arrow Al would’ve called a press conference and announced it himself in front of the hospital. I’m pretty sure that’s right. Actually, as I write this, it’s a little hard to imagine Al out hunting in the first place. He’d be out there looking at the beauty of nature, going on and on [and on] about environmental issues – feeding the quail. Maybe he’d shoot a few pictures.<\/p>\n
In fact, it’s a bit hard to envision Al Gore spending much time pursuing his hobbies while on the job. While we joke about it a lot, it’s something of a serious point that the President is often in Texas hot dogging on his bike and clearing brush while Cheney’s on his compound in Wyoming or the Chesapeake or on a hunting trip. The question is which is the hobby? golfing, hunting, biking, etc. or running the country? <\/p>\n
I think that’s how I actually see them. If Bush or Cheney were really serious about running the country, they wouldn’t have treated it so lightly – starting a real war based on the lame theories of their loonie think-tank pals, or eavesdropping on real Americans just because they could, or outing a real C.I.A. Agent to get back at her husband. I don’t think they are taking us seriously, or their jobs seriously.<\/p>\n
They’re living the life of the idle rich, which is fine with me. But most such people do it without passing themselves off as public servants [I choke on those words]. Public Servants… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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