A SC'linian's view of the Dem Candidates:Gathering of Political Critters!

[KoKo]

A gathering of political critters
BY R.L. SCHREADLEY

Over the years, I've often written about critters -- foxes, raccoons, possums, pelicans, gulls, cockroaches, ants and sundry other bugs. The other night, after watching several hours worth of unbiased, fair and balanced political reporting on Fox News, I went to bed and almost immediately dropped off to sleep. Not long after, a terrible racket erupted in the backyard of my James Island (city of Charleston) home.

Critters of Democratic persuasion were having a convention right here. Well, maybe not a convention. It could have been a caucus. With critters the line gets kind of blurred.

A passel of possums whooped it up for Hollerin' Howard Dean. The road-kill crowd all wore little badges saying "Nothing Runs Like A Deere!" (with "Deere" crossed out and "Dean" written in). I found that kind of funny. You ever see a possum running? Hollerin' Howard, I think, would have a better chance if he just ran more and talked less.
Neighborhood dogs and cats got in their licks for Sens. Kerry, Edwards and Lieberman. House pets are pretty fickle critters when you get right down to it. They're for anyone who feeds them, and here in South Carolina, we've got a long tradition of being spoon fed from Washington

More.........http://www.charleston.net/stories/020204/com_02schread.shtml

[KoKo]

1. Hey! It's a quick read, scan and the conclusion is really quirky! Take a

chance and read it! Ignore the rest of the article where he takes his "hearing aid" out and goes into the Charleston Mayoral race.

It's a good read.....if you can deal with "Brer Rabbit," and other Southern Folk stories.......much wisdom in that article. But it's very subtle....only the crafties minds might get it.
:D

[KoKo]

2. Now....if you get Clark as a "Crow" and you can get down to the last

paragraph about the "Pelican," you, here might just understand about Democrats in the South.

I'm still hoping for some folks who can understand this "dry, dark, black humor (meaning dark humor, not African-Am.) and understand what theis article is saying. It's from CHARLESTON! The most liberal area of SC.....please read and think about it!

[Rowdyboy]

3. Sorry, but it requires registration

and I'm really tired of giving my e-mail address to newspapers. Plus, the opening paragraphs of the article make this 7th generation Mississippians uneasy. Possums, raccoons, roaches representing various Democratic constituencies really isn't my cup of tea, anyway.
Makes us seem like hillbillies.

[KoKo]

4. Oh......sorry when I clicked the link after I posted it was okay...didn't

know you had to register....let me see if I can get it another way.

[KoKo]

6. Hey....Rowdy! If we forget Southern Folk Language who are we, anyway?

I loved the language, but had to read the article three times to get how subtle it was.....

Anyway, I posted the rest of it, because I'm registered and it said I could "e-mail" to my friends. You all are my "friends."

[KoKo]

5. Here's the rest of the "story" for those who had "registration" problems..

the site said "e-mail" to your friends, I e-mailed to me and am copying it for you........

Critters of Democratic persuasion were having a convention right here. Well, maybe not a convention. It could have been a caucus. With critters the line gets kind of blurred.

A passel of possums whooped it up for Hollerin' Howard Dean. The road-kill crowd all wore little badges saying "Nothing Runs Like A Deere!" (with "Deere" crossed out and "Dean" written in). I found that kind of funny. You ever see a possum running?

Hollerin' Howard, I think, would have a better chance if he just ran more and talked less.

Neighborhood dogs and cats got in their licks for Sens. Kerry, Edwards and Lieberman. House pets are pretty fickle critters when you get right down to it. They're for anyone who feeds them, and here in South Carolina, we've got a long tradition of being spoon fed from Washington.

I saw only a few ragged signs for the Rev. Al Sharpton (if there was ever a case for separation of church and state, he's it). I didn't see any at all for Dennis Kucinich, or whatever his name is.

A dozen or so crows cawed for Wes Clark from an old oak tree in my neighbor's yard, but like the general himself, they couldn't be talked down to the ground. Some foxes stood off by themselves. They didn't seem to have a favorite candidate. I didn't, either.

A white pelican gave what you might call the keynote. He urged the party to come together to make a new beginning (Ronald Reagan's old theme). "In our lifetime," he said, "we've seen our party so broken up that no two pieces fit together. It used to be the Republicans in South Carolina who, as the joke went, held conventions in a phone booth. Now they've got the governor's mansion, the state House of Representatives, the Senate, city and county government all over the state. And tonight it's we Democrats who are holding our meeting in one little old James Island backyard!"

At this point, the white pelican was interrupted by a hoot owl. "Ooh-ee!" the owl screeched, sounding a little like Howard Dean in Iowa. "That may be true," said the owl, "but what's in a name? What's in a party label? All these new so-called Republicans are our own old Democrats! They're still the same critters! And they're our critters.!"

A roar of approval went up. Well something like a roar. More like a guttural howl, maybe. It was a bit frightening.

The white pelican banged his gavel on the podium (an old tree stump I've been meaning to remove), and a semblance of order was restored. "Now you get it," the pelican said, smiling broadly, as only a pelican can. "I was just about to make that point."

A sharp elbow sent the critters scurrying off. "You're snoring again," complained the Little Woman at my side.

"Hmmph!" I said, rolling over.

[Rowdyboy]

7. Actually, I chuckled several times

Thanks for going to the trouble of posting the whole thing. I think I catch the crow reference (at least I think I know the guys he's talking about). Kinda sad, too, but so is the state of the Democratic party in SC.

Again, thanks for taking the time. Glad I checked back.

[KoKo]

8. Thanks, Rowdy.....can't find any other Southerners.....

:shrug:

[David Zephyr]

9. Charleston.

Figures that this would come from a Charleston paper. I like Charleston.

KoKo, honestly...

I left the South at 17 with less than $20 in my pocket.

Never went back. Never will.

[Rowdyboy]

10. kick

:kick:

[elsiesummers]

11. Anyone think it's inspired by George Orwell's Animal Farm?