High Corn (James Howard Kunstler)

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James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust

Aug. 15, 2011 -- Looking every inch the Assistant Manager of a J.C. Penny, Rick Perry of Texas stepped on-board the touring evangelical freak show that the Republican pre-primary parade has turned into.

I like to think of him as George W. Bush without all the encumbering intellect. I give it three months before media snoops catch him in bed with Michele Bachmann. The two of them will claim it was all right because Jesus was there as chaperone and anyway, "Alls we did was watch the Vikings-Cowboy game..."

Oh these sons and daughters of the high corn! Make no mistake (to borrow a favorite war cry from the presidential cheat sheet), both of these heartland bozos are dumb enough to lead America straight into the graveyard of failed states. Imagine a summit between Rick Perry and whoever succeeds Hu Jintao -- the incredulous side-glances of the Chinese leader and his interpreter when Mr. Perry presents the official gift from our nation: a miniature Bible made by the inmates at Stringfellow State Prison and "prayed over by qualified preachers 24 hours a day!" Or how about Michele Bachmann and Vlad Putin. I'd sooner watch a gerbil in a terrarium with a King Cobra.

Meanwhile, the other day poor Mitt Romney tried to explain to a crowd of Iowa hot-heads that "corporations are people!" Wasn't that just the right thing to say to folks whose employment opportunities have dwindled down to eviscerating chickens on an assembly line or humping boxes on the WalMart loading dock for $8 an hour. He was heckled mercilessly. I don't see how a candidate recovers from that kind of caught-on-camera mockery -- but then again, in a culture that has no shame, just about anything goes.

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1. "in a culture that has no shame, just about anything goes"

this is a problem for Democrats and liberals, and I've seen it here. There's a line of reasoning that goes something like "Too Crazy To Be Elected." I, personally, feel like that rulebook got thrown out the window sometime in the last 20 years.

[KoKo]

3. agree........... ! n/t

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. link to Kunstler's blog

http://kunstler.com/blog/2011/08/high-corn.html

some of the comments are great


that first line is just gold! :rofl:

" Looking every inch the Assistant Manager of a J.C. Penny, Rick Perry of Texas stepped on-board the touring evangelical freak show that the Republican pre-primary parade has turned into."


:rofl:

[Eddie Haskell]

Or this

And hasn't the mainstream news media noticed that there's something a little peculiar about a cycle of perpetual election with no governing in between?

[Eddie Haskell]

4. dupe