Post 1322

by billso on Wednesday, 28 July 2004

USA: The New York Times reports that for­mer Texas Gov­er­nor Ann Richards had some good remarks at the DNC: shot­gun wed­ding! I love it!

“You know, for Amer­i­can women in a Repub­li­can major­ity, their pres­i­dent has been like a mar­riage that’s gone from bad to worse. You know the story. The guy has a great line, he’s sort of cute, he tells you that life together will be bliss, and then in a few years he’s snor­ing on the couch while the TV blares on the fifth foot­ball game of the day and the neigh­bors are scream­ing about the yard that never gets mowed, and there’s a car up on blocks in the dri­ve­way, and your house­hold bud­get is just stretched to the limit, and he’s spend­ing all the money on hunt­ing trips, a new shot­gun and a camo jump­suit, and you’re stand­ing there at the sink think­ing, ‘I must have been out of my mind!’ So here we are, almost four years past our shot­gun wed­ding with this White House, and like we say in Texas: Honey, it’s time to split the sheets and sign the legal papers.”

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