40 Sweaters and a Koi Pond?
Is it 1.20.09 yet?
Happy Birthday to you, man. What a year. Seems like 3 years since last August, and 2 years since Iowa doesn’t it?
You sure know how to do things right. I completely understand why this is your year. You’re not coming back for 2012 if 2008 doesn’t work out, are you? ‘The fierce urgency of now’ is more than a politically correct quote by a great leader. You’re our back-door man. You’ve got to slip in without being seen.
For your stance on the Iraq War, they let you be a stand-in at rehearsal. None imagined you’d make it to the big dance, and they handed you a dance card pre-filled with trouble and woe that no one would wish on their worst enemy. Still, they are convinced you are blindly ambitious. For what I wonder, could you possibly be ambitious, other than to go down as a great leader? I want nothing less than a great leader as well. What am I missing?
Your so-called ’soaring rhetoric’ is practical and, yes, very soaring. What’s wrong with that? I have been living your ‘platitudes’ and I know they are words to live by. I am a better person for being careful to only speak positively about you, rather than in contrast to a negative in our opponent. Win or lose, you have taught me by example and clear articulation, allowing me to test the message for myself.
From many of us, you have asked exactly what we wanted to be asked. That is, simply to be asked. And how you work us! When you say it’s not about you, of course, the world scoffs. But, I know that you are about us.
E Pluribus Unum. You’ve had it right since you diagnosed it in 2004, doctor. Why are we so divided? It was/is a strategy to win 51% of the vote at the expense of the 49% who later gain many of the 51 when they realize they’ve been used to win, by any means. We’ve been had, all of us, and they’ll do it again.
You’ve got more cheeks than a porcupine has quills. I admire your way. Your mother would be swelling with pride. Happy Birthday Senator. I hope next year I’ll be typing a different title, but you’ll always be a gift to me.
Leos rule.
