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May 07, 2005
Ballot stronger than the bullet: before or after getting shot ?
The egomania required to be president or a presidential assassin makes
the two types brothers of sorts. Presidents and presidential assassins
are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City that way. Even though one city
is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are
identical, one-dimensional company towns built up out of the desert by
the sheer will of true believers. The assassins and the presidents
invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?
If I can summon this much bitterness toward a presidential human
being, I can sort of, kind of see how this amount of bile or more,
teaming up with disappointment, unemployment, delusions of grandeur
and mental illness, could prompt a crazier narcissistic creep to buy
one of this country's widely available handguns. Not that I, I repeat,
condone that. Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is
stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got
shot.
-- Sarah Vowell
My first impression of Vowell came from her excellent pre-emptive
obituary of Frank Sinatra.
Posted by omor at May 7, 2005 08:15 PM
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