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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

In case you want to read a real blog....

I've always said that I don't write much about politics on this blog despite a passionate interest in the subject because there are already many more worthy political blogs than any normal person can find time to read.

That's less of a problem because the great Charles P. Pierce is now writing the politics blog at Esquire.com, and reading his take on things makes most of the rest of them superfluous.

Here he is on whether the other Republican candidates would call Mitt Romney on his Occupy Wall Street donor connections at the debate last night:
Rick Perry's too stumped by conventional English to do it, and I think Herman Cain's going to have enough problems. My money's on Newt, who's the most accomplished backstabber since the O'Jay's.
Here's his description of Rick Perry's debate performances:
He is as lead-footed on his feet as any major candidate I've ever seen. He doesn't have what the football coaches call "lateral quickness." He thinks on his feet with the dexterity of an andiron. He adapts to an unfamiliar question like a duck confronting the space shuttle. He corners like an oil tanker. Watch him when he tries to deliver a zinger. He looks like a guy learning to dance by following the footprints painted on the floor of the studio. Move one of the footprints a quarter-of-an-inch, and he'll dance himself out the window and down three floors to the sidewalk."

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