As the 2008 presidential election gets underway (I know, I know... I'm a little late with this), there will be plenty of small entertainments to go around. Right now we're in the "Great Mentioning" phase of the campaign, although in reality that started back in 2001. One of the names occasionally mentioned in the Great Mentioning is that of Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel.
So here's the first entry in our new game, called "Count the Qualifiers." People who take part in the Great Mentioning, both the mentioners and the mentioned, want the mentioned to display some level of coyness, or perhaps modesty, about the exact nature of their ambitions. You can't just come right out during the Great Mentioning and say, "I'm running for president!" That's so... hackneyed. It makes you seem like an overeager ten-year-old trying to get picked first for a team in P.E. Instead, you have to play it coy. Is he running? Who knows! This week, it's Senator Hagel's turn. Here's a quote from today's Lincoln Journal-Star.
"I hope to be in position to have the option of entertaining the possibility of running for president."
Hagel has set the bar pretty high with this one, but we'll see if any others of the mentioned can beat him.
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"I hope to be in position to have the option of entertaining the possibility of running for president."
Okay, well...at least he seems to realize he doesn't actually have a chance at winning.
And you know why he doesn't have a chance?
...President Hagel?
Good God, that's as bad as naming your child Alexander Simon Smith (ASS, in case you couldn't pick that up).
I can just imagine the headlines when he makes his first screw-up: President Hagel Bagel Toasts!
And Chuck...Like...Chuck beef? So if he was actually elected we'd have President Chuck Hagel...A bagel spread with beef. Great.
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