Do You Get A Purple Heart For Flossing?

[Florida_Geek]

Do You Get A Purple Heart For Flossing?

DANIEL RUTH


If there is a change in residents next year at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., the punditry thumb-sucking class may well point to the incumbent's appearance on ``Meet The Press'' last week as the beginning of the end, the point when the body politic realized - ``Jeepers!'' - Dagwood Bumstead has been running the country.
You know, the American people have a fairly low bar for re-electing presidents.

A really creepy guy like Richard Nixon got a second term.

Ronald Reagan, who was perceived to be less engaged than Paris Hilton at a virginity seminar, received another four years.

Even Bill Clinton, whose moral compass was somewhere between Larry Flynt's and Pete Rose's, was able to extend his reservation on the Lincoln Bedroom.

So it's pretty clear the country doesn't ask all that much of its presidents. We'll accept all manner of faults, in other words, as long as - please, please, please - the president tries not to come off in public as Kato Kaelin with the nuclear codes.

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John Kerry's campaign to unseat Bush can point to the senator's Silver and Bronze Stars and Purple Hearts to underscore his service.

And what does George W. Bush have to rely on? A dental X-ray of his bicuspids?

<<more one-liners at article >> :evilgrin:

[buckeye1]

1. Thanks.

Out of Tampa. Good column. I am hoping this signifies a change. When Bush is perceived as outside of the middle he is in trouble.

[mike1963]

2. Thanks...I knew Dan Ruth casually when I lived in TPA.

;-)