I don't get this article. Is it sarcastic, serious or just incoherent?
I read it as extremely sarcastic.
””The old lions and lionesses speechifying”” old lions can’t hunt and just feebly growl waiting to die
This is how democracy ought to be, ought to look every day--full of the joy of argument (lies and bitter innuendo),
and marked by the moral certainty that here you can say what you think. And not worry about being lynched.
A former president, a softly gray-haired and chronically dyspeptic (gassy) gentleman who seems to have judged the world to be just barely deserving of his presence (thinks his stuff don’t stink), pointedly insulted a sitting president who was, in fact, sitting right behind him. sitting light-years in front of him
””A rhyming preacher, one of the old lions, a man of warmth and stature, freely used the occasion to verbally bop the sitting president on the head.””
A clichéd, bitter, old never-was used the “occasion” to take a self aggrandizing political cheap-shot at the president.
Pointing out the irony of Hillary’s launching her run for the presidency at a funeral.
""""God I love them.""""
""""God I hate them"""".
And that cartoon of Coretta Scott King glancing heavenward and frowning.