Don’t Look To Pogo For An Explanation
There is scarcely an excuse for not knowing the issues of the past election except for John Kerry’s outrageous inability to define them in terms the electorate could understand. Not only understand, but rally 'round.
For that you can blame the electorate in the half-century old words of cartoonist Walt Kelly’s swamp philosopher, Pogo: “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
Well, perhaps.
Or we can go straight for the throat of Democratic National Committees, Democratic Conventions and Democratic candidates themselves and demand to know why, in those same fifty years since Pogo, they've managed to give us only two guys with an evangelist's fire; John Kennedy and Bill Clinton.
I don't know about you, but I'm tired to death of wine and cheese and mannerly response preaching to the choir and changing no one's mind. I am sick at heart from sitting back, pounding the table (and typewriter) urging a Eugene McCarthy, Adlai Stevenson, Michael Dukakis, George McGovern, Al Gore or John Kerry to get t…