Just for fun, do y'all remember Brer Rabbit and the briar patch?
Here's the story, in a nutshell.
Read it through, because I have a question at the end. :-)
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One day Brer Fox thought that Brer Rabbit had been acting too upity lately, and he thought he was the boss of the whole gang. So Brer Fox thought of a way to set a trap for Brer Rabbit, and then he hid himself in the bushes.
Well, to make a long story short, the trap worked, and Brer Rabbit was caught.
Brer Fox walked out from behind the bushes and strolled over to Brer Rabbit, looking as innocent as a mockingbird.
"Howdy, Brer Rabbit," said Brer Fox. "You look sort of stuck up this morning." And he rolled on the ground and laughed and laughed until he couldn't laugh anymore.
By and by he said, "Well, I expect I got you this time, Brer Rabbit. Maybe I don't, but I expect I do. You've been around here sassing me a mighty long time, but now it's the end."
"You're always getting into something that's none of your business," Brer Fox continued. "You just jammed yourself into a trap, and there you'll stay until I fix up a brushpile and fire it up, cause I'm going to barbecue you today, for sure." said Brer Fox.
Then Brer Rabbit started talking mighty humble.
"I don't care what you do with me, Brer Fox," says he, "Just so you don't fling me in that briar patch. Roast me, hang me just as high as you like, drown me just as deep as you please, Brer Fox," said Brer Rabbit, "But PLEASE don't fling me in that briar patch."
Of course, Brer Fox wanted to get Brer Rabbit as bad as he could, so he caught him by the behind legs and slung him right in the middle of the briar patch. There was a considerable flutter when Brer Rabbit struck the bushes, and Brer Fox hung around to see what was going to happen.
By and by he heard someone call his name, and way up on the hill he saw Brer Rabbit sitting cross-legged on a old log, combing the thorns out of his hair with a chip. Then Brer Fox knew he had been tricked.
Brer Rabbit hollered out with alaugh, "Born and bred in the briar patch. I was born and bred in the briar patch!" And with that he skipped out just as lively as a cricket in the embers of a fire.
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Now remember, this is just for fun, so nobody get their undies in a bunch, ok?
I've heard this story used as a comparrison against Rove and Dean. Where Rove is Brer Rabbit, and is afraid of the Dean campaign, so he says "Go Dean, give us Dean."
http://www.sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/07/1624957.phpJust like Brer Rabbit asked Fox to roast, hang or drown him.
So, here is my question.
Do you think Rove wants a Dean candidacy, or not? If so, what-or who-is Rove's briar patch?
Also, can you interpret this story in such a way as to make Dean = Brer Rabbit?
Best answer wins - absolutely nothing, sorry. :eyes: