Joyce@60 and Jen@68: My first Derby-related memory is not of the actual Derby, but when Swale died in '84. The first actual Derby for me is the next year: I thought Spend A Buck was a stupid name for a horse.
'83 Kentucky gubernatorial election. Martha Layne Collins won, which was personally significant in our house because she had been a teacher in Woodford County when my parents were growing up, and my grandfather gave the invocation at her inauguration. I well remember all the hubbub surrounding her (first woman to be governor of Kentucky) but until I looked it up online just now I didn't remember that she had beaten Jim Bunning. Obviously, that was the not the important part to remember then.
I was six.
Group A:
George McGovern, bomber pilot
Jimmy Carter, nuclear engineer in the Navy
John Kerry, patrol-boat officer
Group B:
George W. Bush, weekend warrior
Dick Cheney, had more important things to do
Donald Rumsfeld, Navy flight instructor
Funny, you'd think Group B would be the one eviscerated for denying the realities of war and "staying the course."
Paula Lieberman:
Right on.
Yeah, right. Maybe a few thousand, and only if you beat the bushes in Arlington County with a backhoe. And many of those countless hardcore activists are put off by Miller because of his career as a lobbyist and by his negative campaign ads.
The ads are amusing. They start out with upbeat music talking about Miller's progressive bonafides and his great ideas. This lasts for about 30 seconds. Then the background music and the voiceover get all dark and Swift Boat on you and talk about how Webb is a wolf in sheep's clothing, only to switch back to a cheerful "I'm Harris Miller..." to close. The back and forth is creepy.
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I can see the author raising the first two fingers of each hand in air quotation as this phrase first comes to his mind. What other phrase was he trying to "euphemize?"
"Ethnic sieve?" "Cultural bulwark?" "Fortress Xenophobe?"
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