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Friday, June 15, 2012

Fifty-four minutes? Really?? In President Obama’s defense, maybe he was auditioning for a teaching position at the community college by giving a lecture in failed public policy.

Johnny Carson, the legendary late night comedian, was a genius at saving bad jokes, often turning duds into his monologue’s funniest moments. One of his techniques was to start explaining the joke, pretending, hope against hope that, if only the audience understood what he was trying to say, they’d realize his comic genius. Sometimes he’d pull down the overhead mike and rap on it to make sure it was working. In fact, it was the faux explanation that was the real joke. What he knew, and leveraged to the hilt, was that, if you had to explain it, it probably wasn’t that funny in the first place.

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

It’s only fair. President Obama wants us to focus on Mitt Romney’s history at Bain Capital, and the media is on that like white on rice – an expression which made more sense before my wife told me that brown rice is better for you, no political metaphor intended.

While the media and Newark’s Cory Booker are busy wondering whether it’s fair to criticize capitalism, I’d like to take a different tack. I’d like to compare candidate Romney’s resume to President Obama’s prior to his running for President. (We all know what he’s done since then.) If he’s asking us to consider Mitt Romney’s preparedness to be President, we have every right to ask the same question about President Obama.
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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Hi. In recent months, and the past few weeks in particular, I’ve been been writing political pieces about our need to replace non-performing incumbents. Reaction to these posts has been unexpectedly strong, so encouraging, in fact, that I’ve started a new blog, www.NextContestant.us, where I will be posting related materials going forward.

Today, for example, I’ve just posted 8. Ben Cardin v. Dan Bongino: “If our democracy were a business…”

If you’re interested, please go there, to www.NextContestant.us, when you have time. Read the “About” page, look around, and feel free to leave your comments and suggestions.

Thanks.

Update, Monday, May 21:
And I’ve just posted 9. Ben Cardin v. Dan Bongino: “Money buys you access.” It’s about Senator Cardin’s membership on the Senate Committee on Finance’s Subcommittee on Health Care and campaign contributions he’s received from health industry-related PACs.

-wf