The Tale Of The Purged Pussy
Was Socks the cat just a Clinton prop? Was he used to soften the Clintons' image, showing The Woman Who Would Be Queen's softer and nurturing side? Was he then palmed off when the Clintons left the White House and he was no longer perceived as needed for window dressing?
At least he didn't meet Buddy's fate, running around loose and getting run over by a car.
First Betty Currie cleans up after Bill, and now after Socks.
I generally don't like to engage in Clinton bashing, but who cares about her positions if she can't keep her animal family intact and healthy. Rudi's divorce pales in comparison to this. This makes Che look humane. Stalin deserves a Nobel when his actions are stacked up against this evil. Will this put the PETA vote squarely in the Republican camp?
"If you can't trust us with a cat, how can you trust us with the White House"?
(To paraphrase an idiotic pro choice bumper sticker)
Rudi, tell us what you think of the Madam?
“She’s never run a city, she’s never run a state, she’s never run a business, she has never met a payroll, she has never been responsible for the safety . . . of millions of people.”
OK, That's all for this morning. I have 4 cats to feed.
At least he didn't meet Buddy's fate, running around loose and getting run over by a car.
First Betty Currie cleans up after Bill, and now after Socks.
I generally don't like to engage in Clinton bashing, but who cares about her positions if she can't keep her animal family intact and healthy. Rudi's divorce pales in comparison to this. This makes Che look humane. Stalin deserves a Nobel when his actions are stacked up against this evil. Will this put the PETA vote squarely in the Republican camp?
"If you can't trust us with a cat, how can you trust us with the White House"?
(To paraphrase an idiotic pro choice bumper sticker)
Rudi, tell us what you think of the Madam?
“She’s never run a city, she’s never run a state, she’s never run a business, she has never met a payroll, she has never been responsible for the safety . . . of millions of people.”
OK, That's all for this morning. I have 4 cats to feed.
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6 comments
6 Comments:
SD,
This is very mean-spirited of me to say, but after your response to my perhaps clumsy attempt to bury the hatchet I figure I owe you one. This post is the kind of thing that makes me embarrassed to be associated with this blog. Like I said before, I don't pretend to know you personally, but I intuit that you are much too smart to really think that this is at all important or substantive. Perhaps I'm wrong, and this post really represents your heartfelt beliefs as a cat lover. If so, I'm sorry for accusing you of being disingenuous. It doesn't make me any less embarrassed, though, nor does it tempt me to argue about whether Hilary is really the moral equivalent of Stalin because she gave her cat away.
I know it makes me look like a stick in the mud to say it, but the whole fracas I started with my "Al Gore" post and "vat of blood" expletive has woken me up to just how detrimental this kind of "gotcha" politics really is, in part because it led me to deeply offend one of my very dearest friends. If your politics are really as heavy as you say they are you should see the light too.
MOC
MOC. . .
1. The problem with the typed word is that satire and tongue in cheek is not picked up by every reader. Did you really think that I was serious that this compares with Stalin and Che? Did you really take me seriously when I was saying that a divorce is the moral equivalant of giving your cat to someone else?
2. The post was clearly written by Stewdog, not Madman, so there really is no need for you to be embarassed by something that I post.
3. Why does everything posted here have to be "important or substantive"? Please find the Rumpus charter and point that clause out for me. This is a group blog with a number of very different voices. I like it that way.
4. There is nothing "gotcha" about this post at all. Why is this about you?
5. My politics are very heavy, except when they are not.
6. I was simply putting my goofy spin on a news story. Nothing more and nothing less.
7. Sheesh. . . can ya just lighten up a little bit.
SD
SD,
I appreciate things that are ironically funny and I appreciate things that make a political point, and I'll grant that I've occasionally seen you do both (sometimes at the same time, which isn't easy). To my mind, this post doesn't qualify on either count, and its not the first of your posts that I've felt that way about- so sue me. All this sniping at the icons of the "other side" really doesn't do much to move the political conversation forward, and I'm disenchanted enough with the current state of affairs to feel that if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. If believing that means I should "lighten up" I'm sorry, I can't do it- so sue me again. Still, you are hardly the worst or only offender on either the right or the left, so if this is the kind of thing you really want to spend your time on, as my people would say, *gay gezint*. I'll still feel embarrassed, but I'll get over it.
Gay gezint? Is this how low the discourse must fall that you accuse me of sneezing like a homosexual? Oh, the horror.
I hope I can handle the pressure in the future when I post. . knowing that you sit behind the judging table with those numbers. . .will I get a 10? What is the degree of difficulty on a political post? Will I choke and see the dreaded 3.0 pop up?
Madman, I think I'll just sing to myself a Rick Nelson song, "Well its alright now, I've learned my lesson well. You see, you can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself."
I'm not *part* of the problem, I AM the problem, Mister!!!!
"I'm not *part* of the problem, I AM the problem, Mister!!!!"
At last we agree, if only in the metaphorical sense.
What's this I keep hearing about presidential erections!
What? Oh. Elections. Uh ... well, Hilary will put a stop to those, too. I mean, you can talk about a "purged pussy" all you want, but it's the claws that get me!
Or would if I let them. But I won't. Which leads back to my original point.
Never mind.
Jeffery Hodges
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