First Casualty of Politics -- Sense of Humor
by
MichaelBernard1
07/08/2008, 12:40 AM
The first casualty of prudish political perceptions, is the freewheeling creativity of the comic and his or her jokes. You have proven the point quite well for me, as regards your priggish proletarian pole axing of Al Franken's politics as candidate for U.S. Senator from the State of Minnesota, based on his previous life as a comic writer and stand up comedien and, oh my, like Jimmy Carter, a subject for a Playboy magazine interview. You know, maybe we should prefer a legislature of freeze dried lawyers and thoroughly well-trained, mealy mouthed ex-journalists, along with the occasional government prosecutor here and there interspersed, to a representative body that actually REPRESENTS US. Why don't you just come out and say it? You would prefer as the next Senator from Minnesota, the Son of the Former Senator from Minnesota? Hey, you cannot go wrong with those political legacies, given the Clintons, the Bushes, the Gores and the rest of them. Kinda like show biz, we can say of our politics. Oh Ho, but wait: Does that not qualify Al Franken once again? I always thought Bob Dole could tell a wry joke or two, in his day; maybe Al Franken could model his political career on Bob Dole, at least in the Sense of Humor Department?
