- HOME
- NEWS
- SPORTS
- BUSINESS
- FYI/LIVING
- ENTERTAINMENT
- OPINION
- JOBS
- CARS
- REAL ESTATE
- RENTALS
- CLASSIFIEDS
- SHOPPING
- EXTRAS
|
Rhonda Chriss Lokeman is a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate. You can read her Creators columns on national affairs in this space on Sundays. To reach her, send e-mail to RCLCreators@kc.rr.com. |
If Santa didn’t already deliver these gifts, perhaps the New Year will bring: •To Illinois Gov. Rod “I will fight, I will fight, I will fight” Blagojevich: the board game “Clue” and a pair of O.J. Simpson leather driving gloves.
Shortly after President George W. Bush dodged shoes in Iraq, his vice president dropped another shoe here at home. Dick Cheney’s metaphorical gesture, recently broadcast on ABC News, insulted our troops and their families.
When you put the cart before the horse, no matter how many times you lash the beast, you won’t get far. Sooner or later, you realize the direction needs to be changed, not necessarily the animal.
BATON ROUGE, La.| Greetings from the Bethlehem of what could be the new Republican Party messiah. I speak, of course, of Bobby Jindal, governor of Louisiana.
Let us bow our heads at the annual supper of national gratitude to give thanks and praise.
It’s not possible in a weekly column with limited space to get to all that readers want me to cover. In the interest of remaining current and draining the cranial swamp, here are quick hits at some topics that may be dealt with at length in future columns:
It’ll be great to have in the White House a president who can finish The New York Times puzzle. Our president-elect never would say, as Dubya did, “Is our children learning?”
John McCain: The Joe-the-Plumber strategy is working, my friends. We’re headed to victory. Our rally crowds are getting bigger.
If ever there were a time to yell “fire’” in the crowded political theater, it is now as the 2008 presidential race draws to a close. If ever there were time to cease being a bystander to American democracy, it is now.
The closer we get to Election Day the more people are learning how much like George W. Bush that John McCain really is. That’s not the scary part; the scary part comes if he wins and America is led by another incurious president and ambitious vice president who know right from wrong but would choose wrong every time.
