Can it be Presidents' Day again already? Seems like we just celebrated it and took our decorations down last week! Of course, the stores had their Presidents' Day decorations up for sale in October as usual, so it seems like it's a longer Presidents' Day Season than it really is. They put that stuff out earlier and earlier every year.
I wonder if, for former presidents who are still alive, it's like having another father's day or something. Do you get a tie or a new drill maybe? What if you know a former president? What do you get him? A t-shirt that says "World's Best Former President?" Finding a card must be hard. You can't just go to the President's Cards section of Hallmark.
Maybe you get a more traditional gift if you're a former Prez, like your kids run into the room and jump on your bed and wake you up and give you breakfast in bed that they made for you, even though they're in their sixties. Sure, Jeb burned the toast again, and George W. put prune juice in the cereal instead of milk, but they're your kids and they tried their best.
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Hi Scott,
ReplyDeleteI am enjoying the blog. Now I have a question for you--that you can blog about: can the left and right talk in an earnest way? Look at yesterday's NYT--Opinion section. It appears conservatives and liberals are hard-wired. I'm interested in your opinion. And then: what about Ithaca? Conservative or liberal? Pat