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\"\"<\/a>I watched the inauguration today, and I\u2019m sorry folks. I simply can\u2019t get excited about this \u2018extraordinarily gifted man\u2019 that everybody is ecstatic about. \u00a0I think he\u2019s full of hot air. His speech was a load of platitudes that was probably strung together by Oprah Winfrey. \u00a0I can\u2019t help feeling that he\u2019s just another canned politician with a slick grin put together by smarty pants media men paid by the guys in the back room.<\/p>\n

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When I breathe my dislike of the guy people assume that I must be barmy for Bush, kooky for McCain and pie eyed for Palin. (OK, I admit that I was rather taken with Palin but that is for a reason which will become clear) I\u2019m not. I think they\u2019re all full of hot air, that they\u2019re all canned politicos slapped together by their own PR guys and paid by another set of guys in the back room.<\/div>\n
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This is where my true political colors show. (If anybody really cares) and that is, that my political color is beige. That is to say, I don\u2019t have any political colors. The only reason I liked Sarah Palin is because she was a breath of fresh air from Alaska who stepped on to the political stage as a genuine nobody, spoke her mind, had a nice line in high heels, shot from the hip and didn\u2019t seem to like all the stage managers they surrounded her with.<\/div>\n
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In this respect I think it is my Amish roots revealing themselves. I distrust politicians of all sorts. In ordinary life I don\u2019t much like people who want to be in charge, and are willing to say anything to anybody to get elected, so why should I like somebody like that writ large? That\u2019s what the Amish are like. They dislike the establishment. They don\u2019t fit in. They thumb their noses at the lot of them with their pinned together clothes, their outlandish beards, their bizarre customs and their kooky clothes. \u201cKeep it!\u201d they cry out, \u201cKeep it all! It\u2019s all a load of foolish worldliness. All of you are full of horse apples. I\u2019m keeping my buggy and my barn raisings and my scrapple and schnitz and knepp and fat ladies wearing bonnets and chicken pot pie and braided rugs and apple butter and my pork and\u00a0sauerkraut.<\/div>\n
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Maybe that\u2019s why I like being a Catholic too. It\u2019s the best way to be counter cultural, and maybe that\u2019s why I keep my own outlandish beard, wear my cassock every day and keep turning out the lights.<\/div>\n
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I wonder if the insurance on a horse and buggy is cheaper than my Volkswagen. Maybe that\u2019s why I \u00a0bought a VW in the first place\u2026\u2019Volkswagen\u2019 is probably German for \u2018horse and buggy.\u2019<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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