Here we are a nation of immigrants that can’t have a newcomer run for president; makes sense, being as how…you tell me? Seems like the next Trump presidency could easily be the one where Donald is the power behind the throne. Ms. Lara is running for office. The former governor Arnold would need to have a spouse. Do other countries have similar laws? It just seems like a model would make as good a candidate as the ex-president; at least she’d be visually appealing with less hair issues and hasn’t been in a not-so-hot tv show that I don’t think I’d find endurable. I recall a sports talk radio host interviewing a certain publicist-type guy who’s exact job title escapes me. The host asked/suggested rhetorically for the sake of seeming engaging that anyone could be a baseball manager. He went so far as to suggest that even he, a broadcaster, could perform the duties of a baseball field manager. The interviewee flatly denied that this was the case. It was somewhat entertaining to hear an abrasive broadcaster insulted by someone he was interviewing. It does stand to reason that minimum requirements do exist, even for baseball managers rumored to be backslapping buffoons who advise their players to relax, not be uptight, give 110% effort and the like.
This would seem to sum up my attitude about voting. I voted for myself once back in elementary school and actually got elected but was an ass-kisser of a sports captain; wishy-washy, etcetera. I made myself pitcher and the kid who sat next to me second in the batting order. Maybe it’s the nature of the proverbial beast as far as the body politic goes. All the wonderful publicity and literature that seemed so convincingly winning about Ronald Reagan didn’t keep the narrative from ending supposedly in demented senility. Of course, I wasn’t there, so how would I really know? My favorite Pol Sci graduate, hands down, would be Mr. Paul Finebaum ( as if I can name more than one or two others ) . He used to host a barely listenable ( at times ) radio show that drastically changed for the better upon leaving Alabama in favor of, I believe an east coast state outside slightly of the Deep South.
A brief message from our sponsor; meaning I have to throw in something of a fragment completely apropos ( I hated that word at first blush, decades ago ) of nothing. The next time someone asks me if I’ve ever been to college I’ll find it difficult not to play that question for laughs by saying A) My relatives all have, can’t I claim osmosis or something? B) I’ve absorbed a lot of March Madness telecasts, doesn’t that or watching Notre Dame/Penn State/Little Quaker tv publicity shows count or C) Wouldn’t you have be a dolt to never ever have been in this day and age at least in the grandstands of a rinky-dink obscure two-year extension of high school community enterprise masquerading as a college or something?
Back to reality; Mr Finebaum’s wife is a doctor, I enjoyed his book and for the most part none of his callers claim any longer to have served hard time as far as I can tell. He’s also a decent interviewer, provocative; some if not all the good things wrapped up in one . His show and my referencing him are academic currently as I do not have access to his broadcasts. Also, I have limited knowledge of his home state of Tennesee.
