2010/10/16 Ravensburg
Serious people
Artists
“Now it is common for people in Illinois to say that both Kirk and Giannoulias deserve to lose. The race has been nicknamed the liar-liar campaign. So this is not a fairy tale about a good man going into public service. It is a reality tale about why most serious people don’t want to go into politics at all,” David Brooks writes in the Times.
But I’m afraid that Mr. Brooks is wrong.
Politics will keep attracting failed artists, retired athletes and other citizens hungry for power.
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... or historians craving for a line in history books.
no politics
for this failed artist.. only maybe a lowly position in some free university.. here's a small poetic utopia ala nader:gretchen mol
is such a kewpie doll!!
i feel
y'all should cinematically reveal
the curious tale of rose o'neill
don't scoff
you could be
vance randolph
philip haas could direct
alice walton i suspect
would put the money up
To be fair, he did say "most serious people".
"Serious people" immediately followed by "artists", that makes me laugh.
A long time ago I daydreamed a lot about how to become an obnoxious artist or an obnoxious politician; but maybe I was not serious enough or maybe I got scared. Those days my kind of heroes were Adolf H. and Salvador D.
Bernard
You certainly knew who to pick as an example of obnoxiousness:a con artist and an operetta politician.
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