I realize that summer is not the best time for product roll-out. Andy Card reminded us all of that a few years ago, and his wise words are just as true today.
All the same, President Bush’s recent commutation of Scooter Libby’s sentence, coinciding as it does with the Fourth of July holiday, provides me with the perfect tie-in to introduce a new slogan for this great land of ours.
America — because we can.
These have been the watchwords for the Yew Ess of Aaay for a great long while in our history, but they’re getting more and more applicable as our current administration ramps up for its version of end times. You know, January 20, 2009, when life as we know it will come to a halt with the inauguration of someone other than GWB.
I won’t bore you with the details; those of you who know them know that it’s fruitless to learn them. I mean, why spend all that time sorting through the intricacies of Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation, indictment, prosecution, and conviction of Libby, when it’s all so easily undone with a stroke from the POTUS?
Best just to think about what makes our country what it is.
Baseball:
Hot Dogs:
Heroes:
I’ll be hitting a few barbecues today, maybe watching a little baseball, and thinking about the American heroes, past and present, who have said, “Because we can!”
In the words of Stephen Sondheim:
“And I know things now . . .
that I hadn’t known before:
Do not put your faith
In a cape and a hood,
they will not protect you
They way that they should . . .
Nice is different than good.”
Real American Heroes/ Leaders?
Here.
I’m going to spend my Fourth trying to convince Scott and Steph not to move to Canada. Toronto, specifically. But the only feeble arguments I can muster are “but the weather here is nice” and “we’ll be getting a new president, eventually.” The last video here, though, will surely convince them that Canada is the way to go.
Aw, screw it. Let’s all move to Canada! For reals. No more East Coast-West Coast–just Great Whatsit in Toronto…
The hubby and I are in, Jeremy!
Vancouver
Well, we killed Captain America about two months ago – but two out of three isn’t bad.
“America: Long live the extra long chili cheese coney”
I thought I had this whole American hero thing in the bag.
As for Canada…doesn’t it (merely) exist as a same yet different and somehow user friendly other in terms of American (dis)satisfaction? I like Rush, don’t get me wrong, but these guys can’t even win a Stanley Cup anymore.
And how about the American pride of that guy from Cali destroying the once invincilbe Kobayashi in the hot dog eating contest?
Lane, I’ll go to Vancouver too.
Really? Toronto? I liked Montreal a lot. We could colonize a Eurotrash club.