[Peace-discuss] Alex Cockburn on VPs

[C. G. Estabrook]

Yeah, Alex has had a thing for Laura all along.  He's quite nettled by the book 
reviewed on the front page of the NYTBR this morning ("American Wife," by Curtis 
Sittenfeld), writing

"Seems incredibly boring. How could one screw up Laura's story so badly. As my 
friend Bill Broyles, who should know, once said, 'Laura cut a wide swath through 
Texas before she married George'. Nothing of that here. It sounds like a clips job."

But Oates' review is interesting.  --CGE


Matt Reichel wrote:
> Carl -
>  
> You left out the best part of Alex's gem:
>  
> "You want drowsy Sarah Palin getting that 3am phone call from the 
> Situation Room, in charming décolleté, her hair down, snuggled under the 
> soft mounds of grizzly pelt? Or you want Joe Biden, still talking even 
> in his sleep? Who would not wish to take off Sarah’s spectacles and 
> liberate those rich, heaped-up tresses? It’s that librarian look so 
> reminiscent of  Laura Bush in happier days, back among the stacks in the 
> Public Library in Midland which I visited in 2001, mostly to view the 
> crossroads where 17-year Laura broadsided her boyfriend in that 
> so-tragic “accident”."
>  
> -
> matt e r
> 
>  > Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:10:40 -0500
>  > From: galliher at uiuc.edu
>  > To: peace-discuss at anti-war.net
>  > Subject: [Peace-discuss] Alex Cockburn on VPs
>  >
>  > "Of course, the choice could blow up in McCain’s face, but between 
> the two
>  > presidential nominees’ performance in Veep selection, I prefer 
> McCain’s. From
>  > him we get Palin, who is already making the race a lot more fun. From 
> Obama we
>  > got Biden. Already, when Biden flashes that grin I want to throw a 
> shoe through
>  > the tv set. Palin only looks a bit like the dead DC Madam. Biden is a 
> seasoned,
>  > living madam in the DC brothel."