Comments on: World’s Problems Solved. Apply within.

By: callie

callie — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:02:28 +0000

Ah, how true, how true. John – you seem to have just the right quote for just the right times. Thank you, as always.

jb says: Hi Callie. These particular times make it easier than it might be.

By: Jim Winter

Jim Winter — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:26:26 +0000

“You ever sent anyone to the White House from Cincinnati, Jim?”

Yeah, Taft. In 1909. And then Warren Harding pretty much insured there won’t likely be another Ohio president in the foreseeable future. After the debacle that was Governor Bob Taft’s administration, it’s not bloody likely we’ll get another Taft elected soon, either.

jb says: Is there anyone on the horizon looks like they might be able to do the job. Someone who might represent the majority of American opinion. Or is that too much to ask?

By: Dick

Dick — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:45:07 +0000

It’s worth remembering too that Kennedy’s views on America’s potential involvement in Indochina were far from pacific.

jb says: Yes, I remember.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:53:43 +0000

Taft, a progressive-era Republican and follower of Teddy Roosevelt (before their 1912 falling out), was from Cincinnati. If one must have Republicans, progressives like Taft and company aren’t a bad sort–though there were some unfortunate events in Mexico and Nicaragua, he tended to diplomacy through treaty rather than force.

jb says: So Mexico and Nicaragua have been getting the short stick for some time, then, Michael.

By: Jim Winter

Jim Winter — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:29:22 +0000

If you want to solve the world’s problems, let them finish the fence between Texas and Mexico.

Then let New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana each build an extension along their borders with Texas. Declare the state an occupied territory and send all the politicians there to Gitmo. (Might as well put it to good use while it’s open.) Problem solved. No more presidents from Texas. Sorry, Mr. Cheney, but we ain’t buying your Jackson Hole, Wyoming story after all that time spent at Halliburton. I’m afraid you have to go, too.

I mean come on. Vietnam? LBJ. Iraq? W. Where are they from?

I rest my case.

jb says: You ever sent anyone to the White House from Cincinnati, Jim?