Dear Deval P,
First off, two observations from the JFK Library’s full-tilt Obamapalooza: 1) Barak makes you look like his little brother Urkel, and 2) he’s not above playing to the cheap seats when it suits his purposes. Case in point: speaking about the war in Iraq, Obama said there should be a rule that all children of congressmen should be subject to a military draft. Predictable audience bedlam ensued.
Geez, if he’s going to rip somebody off, shouldn’t it be someone classier than Michael Moore?
As for your big-chicken question, maybe you should start hiding out at the movies. “KH” will never find you there.
Dear Spin Cycle,
I have so many questions, I don’t know where to start. So I guess I’ll go with this: what the heck is a Green Rainbow? Isn’t that an oxymoron or something?
Grace R.
Batik, MA
Dear Grace R,
It’s something, all right. What the Green Rainbow Party is not, though, is a factor in this gubernatorial race. Of course, if 2002 Green Party gubernatorial candidate Jill Stein had gotten herself together and collected a measly 6000 legitimate signatures, she would have received at least $3 million in Clean Elections funds and been a serious player that year.
But she — what’s the term? — blew it. So now the Greens are reduced to joining forces with a fringe group that has less juice than the average sippy cup.
Oxymorons, heal thyselves.
John Carroll is a mass-communication professor at Boston University and a correspondent for WGBH-TV’s “Beat the Press” edition of Greater Boston. He can be reached atjohn_carroll@wgbh.org.
