Oct. 9, 2015
Dear Hildie:
At noon yesterday I was watching Wolf Blitzer of CNN interview poor Ben Carson. I never saw such chicken-shit as Blitzer’s questions. “Ruppert Murdoch says Obama isn’t a ‘real black president.’ Do you think he’s a ‘real black president.’” Of all the silliness! Poor Carson kept saying it was all semantics, but Blitzer kept trying to trip him up into something that would be sensational. And then, after Carson had answered a question about the Oregon school shootings, CNN ran a banner at the bottom of the screen that completely misconstrued what he’d just said. I don’t think much of many of Carson’s positions, but this kind of “Gotcha” news-mongering is shameful.
He should’ve asked Carson if he was a ‘real politician.’ Frankly, I’m about at the stage where I think after serving one term, all politicians should be euthanized. They get two feet in the trough and the bastards just can’t seem to get out. Where there are term limits, they just run for some other office. They have no notion of holding real jobs—or, if they do, they don’t like the idea. They’re a bunch of inflated, narcissistic egos who like to order people around.
Your letter about your ex- was so bittersweet—I know it has to have summoned up all kinds of competing emotions in you. You wouldn’t be human otherwise. Life is so short and love is so cruel—You can quote me on that. And we were all so young. I like to think I’m wiser now, but I doubt it seriously.
Take care.
Love,
M