Playing President
In last night’s Theater of the Absurd, a Lame Duck is quacking at the podium while the ducklings-in-waiting look on, pretending to listen before they waddle out for their turn on the TV stage.
You could have watched the President’s last State of the Union address with the sound off and not turned it up as his would-be successors did their predictable soliloquies–Hillary Clinton with a smile as tight as duct tape, dodging questions about Bill; Barack Obama modestly insisting he’s no JFK but basking in his Kennedy aura for the day; Mitt Romney mouthing “Washington is broken” platitudes followed by non-sequiturs that Harold Pinter would not have dared to write.
On his way out, George W. Bush is besieged by legislators holding out their programs to be autographed for some e-Bay auction years from now on another planet.
