Okay, so I've been thinking too much again.
It's a story I am so sick of I want to puke, yet beguiling to ponder as it touches other things that also make me want to puke.
Pete Rose. Should he get in to the Hall, is he admitting to gambling, will he cry on TV blahdefreakinblahblahblah.
Maybe I'm simplistic and I hope to gawd I am, but it's seems easy enough. Are his acheivements such that he deserves to be in the Hall if this same Hall purports to house the greats of the game?
Well hell yeah.
It's not the Nice Guys Hall of Fame or the Moralistic Batters Club. The sonofabitch could hit the ball like nobodies dam biz. We do this now with everything. "Well, sure he won the race, but dammit I saw him kicking a puppy yesterday, so let's give the trophy to the guy in last place who is slow as fucking molasses, but a real swell guy, that's our winner." We are doing just that with revisionist history these days.
It's why our nominating and election processes churn out moron after moron year after year. Who can pass the scrutiny of the investigations into the minute details of your whole life? All of us have moments we would be petrified for the world to view but we expect our candidates to not be human? What kind of person can pass the test we nowadays put them through? I"ll tell you who. A dull, colorless, unimaginitive dullard. Al Gore anyone?
I want a candidate who's been there and done that. Somebody who will stand in there and mix it up a little with the nations of the world. Not some little snively, goody two shoes schmuck!
That's why I will never be running for the Presidency (sobs abound everywhere).
The Media: Gutterpoet. Is it true you smoked marijuana in your youth?
GP: My youth, last wednesday, whatever, yeah. I spent a whole year stoned once.
Media: Is it true you cheated on a girlfriend a time or two?
GP: Eh, occasionally. I once dated three girls who knew each other behind each of their backs. That takes skill, cunning and tact my friends, and that's what I'll bring to this office.
Media: It's been reported that after your term of Governor of Georgia that a lot of porn was found on the computer you used, how do you respond to that?
GP: Yes, absolutely. I thought it a nice gesture to leave that wealth of entertainment for my successor.
You can see what I mean.
Is it a coincidence that what are likely the three most successful presidents of the last 50 years, Kennedy, Reagan and Clinton were each in many ways what society considers degenerate? Kennedy. Banged Actresses. Reagan. Certainly once banged actresses. Clinton. Banged anyone.
I'm not saying I want a president who ends up lying in a pool of his own vomit after mainlining smack in an Amsterdam brothel or anything. But maybe our focus should be more on what the person brings to the party rather than we he did at the last party.
Wow, this entry went in a weird direction. I need an editor.
Help me.