Dumb and Plumber

10/31/2008

You would hope that a presidential election of this magnitude and consequence would inspire a debate worthy of its heft. Based on experience, that’s a damned audacious hope.

My memory of these things goes all the way back to 1968 and an appearance in my hometown by George C. Wallace. So excoriated by Wallace’s venom, an onlooker heaved a projectile at the Alabama governor that, had he not ducked, would have further defiled his ugly scowling mug.

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