Guys in our demographic shouldn’t run. It’s not
healthy. Of course, you’ve been running for the last few decades, so maybe
you’re still in shape. Last Saturday night, you ran down the runway
toward the lectern and weren’t out of breath when you got there.
Congratulations on your good lungs and, oh, yeah, on your
election victory. It’s a sign of hope. That’s the main message on the
billboard. Here’s the fine print beneath it. Please don’t stop
reading here.
You are now a stationary target from the loud left and the
resonant right. It was harder to hit you when you were only a moving
target because ideologues and other dogmatics are lousy shots. But don’t
ignore them now, just because they missed you so far.
From the left: OK, it’s day-one. It’s around 6 PM. The
ceremony is over. Chief Justice Rubberstamp didn’t lose his lunch when he
swore you in. The Inauguration balls haven’t yet started. But
wait. Six hours into the presidency and where’s my Medicare for
all? Where’s that tax increase for the Koch Brother and Adelson and
Gates?
Why haven’t you rejoined the Paris Accords yet? And are you
serious? A white guy for Secretary of Agriculture? C’on, Joe, why so
slow?
From the right: Who are all those persons of
color? See, we told you he was an anti-white racist trying to steal from
the Job Creators! And we still can’t get over that woman vice
president. She should be home making babies… and if she were, she still
can get an abortion.
And you’ve had enough time but haven’t
--Declared English the official language.
--Restored Confederate monuments.
Plus, you’re still wearing a mask?! How can you even
smell that woman’s hair if you’re still wearing a mask, you socialist SOB.
Meantime, you’ve assembled an AntiCovid committee which
can’t get access to current data from federal agencies. That’s because
the current administration won’t let you. The custom is otherwise.
Presidents-Elect and their people are supposed to get that kind of information
before they even ask for it. It’s happened that way for more than 200
years.
The data belong to the people, not the outgoing
president. Trouble is, trump acts as if he isn’t outgoing. This all
is not your fault. But it falls on you anyway.
Sometimes you’re just too nice, too accommodating, too
willing to work with the other side even when they have their fingers on the
triggers and you have a target on your back … which you do.
At this point on your way to inauguration, I would hire a
food taster.
The tens of millions of people who voted for you want you to
succeed. The almost equal number of people who voted against you want you
to fail.
Keep running, while those on your side get used to calling
you Mister President instead of Joe.
SHRAPNEL:
--It is Veterans/Armistice Day. The fighting in World War I ended on the
eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. We have learned nothing about war since.
-- Remembering as we do each year at this time the men of
the Edmund Fitzgerald, last seen above water in Lake Superior 45 years ago
yesterday. Twenty-nine bells. Times 45.
I’m Wes Richards. My opinions are my own but you’re welcome
to them. ®
Any Questions? wesrichards@gmail.com
© WJR 2020
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