Agree with most of this piece, but I take exception to the line describing Shanahan as "the least qualified vice presidential choice since Admiral James Stockdale."
I don't make a habit of quoting Dennis Miller, particularly in the last two decades, but he said it well in 1994: "[Stockdale] became a buzzword in this culture for doddering old man, but let's look at the record, folks. The guy was the first guy in and the last guy out of Vietnam, a war that many Americans, including your new President, chose not to dirty their hands with. He had to turn his hearing aid on at that debate because those fucking animals knocked his eardrums out when he wouldn't spill his guts. He teaches philosophy at Stanford University, he's a brilliant, sensitive, courageous man. And yet he committed the one unpardonable sin in our culture: he was bad on television."
Admiral Stockdale was bad on TV, but he was 100x more qualified for the actual job of vice-president than Ms. Shanahan.
You people are nuts.
Agree with most of this piece, but I take exception to the line describing Shanahan as "the least qualified vice presidential choice since Admiral James Stockdale."
I don't make a habit of quoting Dennis Miller, particularly in the last two decades, but he said it well in 1994: "[Stockdale] became a buzzword in this culture for doddering old man, but let's look at the record, folks. The guy was the first guy in and the last guy out of Vietnam, a war that many Americans, including your new President, chose not to dirty their hands with. He had to turn his hearing aid on at that debate because those fucking animals knocked his eardrums out when he wouldn't spill his guts. He teaches philosophy at Stanford University, he's a brilliant, sensitive, courageous man. And yet he committed the one unpardonable sin in our culture: he was bad on television."
Admiral Stockdale was bad on TV, but he was 100x more qualified for the actual job of vice-president than Ms. Shanahan.