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I'm not sure who might have watched ESPN last evening, but I'd like to think that the soon-to-be-anointed John F. Kerry's unannounced ceremonial first pitch at Boston's Fenway Park before the Yankees-Red Sox game on national TV, will be a metaphor for his Presidential Campaign: it couldn't q-u-i-t-e make it to home plate.
I am reminded of the final episode of this past season's The West Wing in which, in the middle of an international crisis involving the Middle East assassination-by-terrorist-bombing of some visiting White House and Congressional personnel, President Bartlett's staff was working feverishly at preparing their man to make the first pitch at Camden Yards in Bal'more, knowing that his athletic ability was abysmal. The show adroitly balanced high drama and hilarity. I recommend it in next month's inevitable re-run.
May Kerry's Fenway photo-op do for him what Dukakis' arrival in an M1 Abrams tank did for him in 1988.
Of course, in all fairness, Dubya, given a similar opportunity in Arlington, Texas, would probably fling the ball up the third base line and bean a photographer, which would be an appropriate metaphor for some of our bombing attacks in Iraq!
I am reminded of the final episode of this past season's The West Wing in which, in the middle of an international crisis involving the Middle East assassination-by-terrorist-bombing of some visiting White House and Congressional personnel, President Bartlett's staff was working feverishly at preparing their man to make the first pitch at Camden Yards in Bal'more, knowing that his athletic ability was abysmal. The show adroitly balanced high drama and hilarity. I recommend it in next month's inevitable re-run.
May Kerry's Fenway photo-op do for him what Dukakis' arrival in an M1 Abrams tank did for him in 1988.
Of course, in all fairness, Dubya, given a similar opportunity in Arlington, Texas, would probably fling the ball up the third base line and bean a photographer, which would be an appropriate metaphor for some of our bombing attacks in Iraq!