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February 20, 2008
Turning the Tables on Bobby W. and other things...
Two or three years ago on The Chris Matthews Show, Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward (the Watergate reporter) predicted with amazing glee that Dick Cheney would be the 2008 Republican Presidential nominee. At the time, I remember thinking, “Has Woodward lost it? There’s about as much chance of Cheney getting the Republican nod in '08 as there is of Tommy Lasorda paying for dinner tonight (Lasorda is not only known as being a fat bastard who destroyed dozens of young pitchers' arms while he managed the Dodgers, but a cheap fat bastard who destroyed dozens of young pitchers' arms).” Surprise, surprise, Cheney will not be the top man on the Republican ticket this year. Pundits rarely have to answer for their lousy predictions. Fortunately, Woodward will be the first guest on my upcoming Cable Access Television Show (to be seen locally in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore), and you can rest assured I’m going to ask him to explain himself. I hope you'll tune in.
In other news, why do people who have failed miserably at running presidential campaigns (see, e.g., Donna Brazile [Gore] and Susan Estrich [Dukakis]) get to appear on television as experts about how to run presidential campaigns? I don't get this. You completely blow it, yet you're an expert.
When I see people rushing by me on the subway, clearly attempting to get somewhere, I usually exclaim, "Hurry, hurry!" (You know, the same way Dick Clark said it on the $100,000 pyramid during the bonus round.) Always seems like a good idea at the time.
I'm ready for Spring. Aren't you?
