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It never ceases to amaze me that there is a sector of the public that actually thinks Gore is smart.

Considering that the guy is as dumb as a rock, and plainly so, it was always somewhat jarring to see him routinely referred to in the press as an intellectual giant. I always thought that perhaps they were enjoying some immense private joke at the poor man's expense, something like nicknaming a big man "Tiny" or a little man "Moose".

It always struck me as cruel that the mainstream press insisted on highlighting the poor man's low-wattage brainpower by pretending to admire what he plainly did not have.

Or was the game at my expense? Were they convinced that they could convince me, by the power of their control of the printing press, that up was down, blue was amber, and that the dumbest man in American politics was actually smart, and were they choosing this obvious absurdity as a test case for mass mind control...?

The other possibility, of course, was that they really believed what they were saying. This would be startling, like cold water in the face, to think that the entire mainstream press could be so completely deluded. But those are the three choices. That they themselves are victims of some massive mind-control experiment gone awry, or the perpetrators of a grand mind-control experiment with me as its test case, or else (and surely this is it) having a huge laugh at Al Gore's expense.

John Podhoretz recently asked, "Whence comes hillary clinton's reputation for brilliance?" For the answer, he intuitively, rather brilliantly in fact, looked to her anatomy and noted,"This isn't the first time she's shot herself in the foot."

... The above anatomical analysis supports the Podhoretz thesis. Notwithstanding The Pod's erroneous conclusions concerning hillary clinton's heart and nerve, he basically has it right. Anatomy is destiny...

Ian Hunter recently observed that our leaders are shrinking. "From a Churchill (or, for that matter, a Margaret Thatcher) to a Tony Blair [NB: a pre-9/11 Blair]; from Eisenhower to Clinton; from Diefenbaker to Joe Clark; from Trudeau to Chretien -- we seem destined to be governed by pygmies."

NANO-PRESIDENT
the danger of the unrelenting smallness of bill + hillary clinton
by Mia T, 7.31.05

The pols understand their anatomical limitations well; they attempt to mitigate them with veneer. And so we suffer mindless alpha-beta-beelzebubba grotesquerie. . . and rhinestone-studded-and-tented kleptocracy.

Mindless rhinestone-studded-and-tented kleptocracy
by Mia T, 01.13.00