Posted on 06/26/2003 2:48:28 PM PDT by Davis
Everybody knows that lefties of all stripes are concerned, compassionate, tolerant, and generous. It's the right that's mean-spirited, spiteful, reactionary and extreme. Now comes Julia Gorin, author of The Buddy Chronicles to spoil this picture. Damn!
Julia Gorin is a columnist and standup comic who on January 4, 2002 published an op-ed piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer in which she expressed anguish over the accidental death some days before--he was hit by a car--of Buddy, a chocolate Labrador retriever resident in the Clinton Chappaqua cottage. You can read a copy of the op-ed piece, Buddy's Dead, Is Anyone Surprised? here.
You can gather from the title that the Inquirer piece was not entirely complimentary to the Clintons. Miss Gorin ascribed Buddy's death to the indifference of his owners to his well-being. She opined--anagramatically appropriate in op-ed--that their indifference was consistent with the former First Couple's usual operating mode. She suggested that Buddy's accidental demise was predictable. Her sadness did not prevent Miss Gorin, a humor professional, from making a quip or two. Consider this terse summary...more
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Bill told his Chinese chef to take Buddy for a walk. He thought Bill said take him to a wok. The rest as they say is history.
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