Friday
5/06/04
Gimme! No, It's MINE !!
As any parent of siblings knows all too well, any given peaceful moment may, without warning, be shattered by the cry: "No! Give me that! It’s MINE!!" And sure enough, upon investigation you’ll find the two little miscreants tugging on either end of a Frisbee/fire truck/ray gun/Barbie doll or whatever.
The cause of the conflict is invariably the same: one sibling picked up a long forgotten toy and started goofing around with it. Seeing this, the other sibling is sent into a rage of righteous indignation that the toy is being touched… despite the fact that until that very moment the toy had lain long forgotten at the bottom of a closet.
Well it’s just the darndest thing, but just a moment ago I heard the squealing of two other little miscreants. When I went to investigate I found them tugging on either end of the Cuban vote. Yes, it seems that John Kerry will soon be on his way to Florida to woo that Tall Dark and Handsome political bloc, but not before Bush had taken a curiously sudden interest in publicly speeding Castro’s demise through new economic pressure.
Again as parents, we all know what happened to that toy the moment the conflict was over and there was no longer any point in hanging on to it… and it sure does seem that once the Big Conflict is resolved in November it really won’t matter much to the Cuban community in practical terms who wins. If it’s Kerry, the status quo will be maintained, and if it’s Bush, he’ll just drop the whole issue about as fast as he forgot to fund his ironically named "No Child Left Behind Act." Does Bush really give a rat’s ass about Cuba? I think not. That’s Jeb’s department.
So there they remain at the back of the national toy closet: the Cubans, No Child Left Behind and Veteran’s Benefits et al… gathering dust with Woody and Buzz.
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Gimme! No, It's MINE !!
As any parent of siblings knows all too well, any given peaceful moment may, without warning, be shattered by the cry: "No! Give me that! It’s MINE!!" And sure enough, upon investigation you’ll find the two little miscreants tugging on either end of a Frisbee/fire truck/ray gun/Barbie doll or whatever.
The cause of the conflict is invariably the same: one sibling picked up a long forgotten toy and started goofing around with it. Seeing this, the other sibling is sent into a rage of righteous indignation that the toy is being touched… despite the fact that until that very moment the toy had lain long forgotten at the bottom of a closet.
Well it’s just the darndest thing, but just a moment ago I heard the squealing of two other little miscreants. When I went to investigate I found them tugging on either end of the Cuban vote. Yes, it seems that John Kerry will soon be on his way to Florida to woo that Tall Dark and Handsome political bloc, but not before Bush had taken a curiously sudden interest in publicly speeding Castro’s demise through new economic pressure.
Again as parents, we all know what happened to that toy the moment the conflict was over and there was no longer any point in hanging on to it… and it sure does seem that once the Big Conflict is resolved in November it really won’t matter much to the Cuban community in practical terms who wins. If it’s Kerry, the status quo will be maintained, and if it’s Bush, he’ll just drop the whole issue about as fast as he forgot to fund his ironically named "No Child Left Behind Act." Does Bush really give a rat’s ass about Cuba? I think not. That’s Jeb’s department.
So there they remain at the back of the national toy closet: the Cubans, No Child Left Behind and Veteran’s Benefits et al… gathering dust with Woody and Buzz.
