corporate politics or ballottine de choux farci et marrons

It's April 2007. The next Presidential election is November 2008. The campaign is in full swing and the media has begun to use labels like top-tier, mid-level, and LUZR to refer to candidates based not upon values, but upon jowl-lines and campaign contributions.

The Democrats held their first debate in South Carolina last evening and apparently Dennis Kucinic is still the only one among them who has a working knowledge of the U. S. Constitution. Obama, who may be articulate, is no Hillary, and Clinton, who may understand tragedy, is no Edwards.

At the annual Lincoln Day dinner in Des Moines, the only black person in town who cares about dumpy old white men was rounded up and forced to listen to drivel while eating bad hotel food. Afterwards he was forced to watch white folk try and dance to such foot stomping tunes as "Freebird"performed by Mike Huckabee's band. He left undecided.

Time to move to France?