I think these ALL qualify as truisms…
* I think it’s about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we’ve been voting for boobs long enough. ~Clarie Sargent, Arizona senatorial candidate
* The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~Henry Cate, VII
* We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~Aesop
* If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn’t be any inducement to go to heaven. ~Will Rogers
* Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato
* Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ~Nikita Khrushchev
* When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it. ~Clarence Darrow
* Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. ~Author Unknown
* If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. ~Jay Leno
* Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. ~John Quinton
* Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. ~Oscar Ameringer
* The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it. ~P.J. O’Rourke
* I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. ~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952
* A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. ~Texas Guinan
* Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. ~Gore Vidal
* I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ~Charles de Gaulle
* Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ~Doug Larson
* Don’t vote, it only encourages them. ~Author Unknown
* There ought to be one day – just one – when there is open season on senators. ~Will Rogers
I was going to put up a comment about tonight’s state of the union, but hell, we ALL know it’s going to be nothing more than a campaign speech…
Sooo….
I just want to let you know that “Understanding Women” is now out in paperback…
Personally, I think I’ll wait for the movie… (ducking and running for cover)…
Seriously though, I can’t embed the video, but THIS is worth watching… A community pays it back…
Yep, all very much true.
What DaddyBear said.
To borrow a phrase…sigh.
Can’t do much about the poly-ticks, but I hope someone catches the sleazeball who ran off with the money. Then… drops him off at the NG Armory for a night.
w.v. realli Yes, really!
The video caused some dust here. What a wonderful tribute.
Yeah Keads, dust and pollen here too.
And I hope Don gets his wish.
The video is very touching.
LOL at the comments. More truth in them than in an hour or more of tonight’s SOTU.
The video hit home for a couple of reasons. I used to have a restored ’57 Chevy pickup just like that one, except mine was Burnt Orange (I lived in Austin at the time).
I also spend a few weeks every year in Wyoming. The people there are great – good neighbors, strong sense of community, come together to help each other. It doesn’t surprise me that they’d do something like this.
Damn allergies…
Was going to comment on the sage wisdom about politicians, but then I watched the video…..
Way to rend my heart in two, NFO. I laughed, then I cried. I will tell you this, though, I’d find that mechanic that ran off with that money and…
Well, but there is me feeding that Wolf again…
You can run, but you cannot hide. 😛
Gottta go with the classic on politics: “If ever a man came to my doorstep with the fixed intention of doing me some Good, I would run for my life…” – attributed to Henry David Thoreau
Mike Doyle
Great video.
man, if “understanding women” were available in movie form, one of two things would happen. it would either be a movie short or it would be an epic multi-part series.
An honest politician is as common as an honest timer in a self service car wash.
DB/Rev- yep
Don/Keads/Rick- Couldn’t agree more
Andy- It is on many levels
Tim- Gotta agree
drjim- yeah…
45er- I would too, with PLEASURE!
Snigs- Point!
Mike- THAT is a truism too!
Msgt- Yep
Laura- Epic/multipart/required watching, right??? 🙂
WSF- ANOTHER truism!
Thanks for the words, and the video. I think you should get that book on tape. You can borrow my truck to haul it.
So where’s Volume Two and Three?
Brigid- I’d need to, they wouldn’t fit in my Yukon… 🙂
Mrs. C- I have NO idea…LOL
Three posts for the price of one!
Ed- Random thoughts… and didn’t EVEN want to comment on the SOTU…