Posted on 08/12/2003 12:25:07 AM PDT by hotpotato
In the 1950s, when Doris Day, prim and perky and squeaky clean, was starring in romantic comedies, the mordant Oscar Levant said, "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin." Washington knew Arianna Huffington before she was a left-wing populist.
But in politics as in other fields of fashion, standards of chic change, and it is as a Huey Long from the upper crust that millionaire Huffington is seeking to make of herself a gift, as governor, to California's downtrodden. Can it be just eight years ago that she was living here, toiling to establish a salon for like-minded surfers on the rising -- or so she thought -- wave of Newt Gingrich's brand of conservatism? "Why Newt Must Run," she wrote in the Nov. 27, 1995, Weekly Standard, urging a presidential candidacy.
Multiple epiphanies later, including one that revealed to her Jesus's automotive preferences (not an SUV), she is a Schwarzeneggerean. But, then, who isn't nowadays?
Asked on "Today" whether he favored California's paid family leave law, the only such law in the nation, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the supposed reincarnation of Ronald Reagan, said:
"I -- I will have to get into that. I mean, because, as you know, I'm very much for families, I'm very much for children and children's issues and all that stuff. I think that the children should have the first call in our treasury. This is the -- the most precious resource that we have. We have to think about the future of the state. Children are the most important thing, and we have to help the families."
There. Did all that stuff clarify things?
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A guy who spends as much time alone as I do? It's kinda nice to have dream now and then.
Everly Brothers dreamed and Georgio Moroder produced whom singing "These Dreams" in the 80s? If memory serves me right, Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics.
It is sad observing some comedians and a few talk radio hosts spinning out wisecracks, interviewing the has been actor and porn star candidate. I heard one last night ask the porn star if "anyone like the stupid Christians" had written her angry letters. Not only do some of them view California's plight as insignificant, even a joke... you were saying something about a dream...
Life is a cabaret... shudddddddddder
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