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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. |
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.
When I think of Sen. John McCain, I think of Vaclav Havel. Havel, a writer, was a political prisoner under the Czech Communists who ran his country as part of the Soviet empire. McCain was a war prisoner in communist Vietnam and wants to be our next president.
Well, fellow Americans, we are hip-deep in it now, aren’t we? We’ve been sloshing around in this Orwellian barnyard for a while, long before Hank Paulson and Dubya started swatting at flies and way before Johnny-Come-Lately caught wind of the putrid pileup and still couldn’t tell it from Shinola.
John McCain, running a Hooveresque campaign during distressed times, is flirting with disaster. He is so desperate to reach the White House after numerous failed attempts that he is offering talking points instead of leadership.
