It's getting downright ugly here in New Hampshire, with only 19 days to go.
What gets me about that Iowa ad (and others like it, here of all places!) is that I've got a Dean intern staying at my place till the Primary. And he's from Jefferson City, Missouri, for crissakes. He had never seen a real city before (the "city" in his hometown's name is a moniker meaning, "we will cash in your corn crop for you here at the bank but we don't have sidewalks"). He's never seen a Broadway show (hell, never been to live theater before!), until he took a day off to go to NYC to see Urine Town and then also went to Cambridge to see Rocky Horror one night. His world is opening up before him, and he's thrilled.
But back to my diatribe. This kid, John, is soooooo Midwest. He's exactly the people the Iowa ad are proclaiming to be. And this kid rode 36 hours on a Greyhound bus to volunteer to intern for a few weeks for the Dean campaign. Midwest thinking? This kid has Midwest thinking. Is he the intellectual elite? Hell no. But he's supporting Dean all the way.
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Date: 2004-01-08 03:10 pm (UTC)What gets me about that Iowa ad (and others like it, here of all places!) is that I've got a Dean intern staying at my place till the Primary. And he's from Jefferson City, Missouri, for crissakes. He had never seen a real city before (the "city" in his hometown's name is a moniker meaning, "we will cash in your corn crop for you here at the bank but we don't have sidewalks"). He's never seen a Broadway show (hell, never been to live theater before!), until he took a day off to go to NYC to see Urine Town and then also went to Cambridge to see Rocky Horror one night. His world is opening up before him, and he's thrilled.
But back to my diatribe. This kid, John, is soooooo Midwest. He's exactly the people the Iowa ad are proclaiming to be. And this kid rode 36 hours on a Greyhound bus to volunteer to intern for a few weeks for the Dean campaign. Midwest thinking? This kid has Midwest thinking. Is he the intellectual elite? Hell no. But he's supporting Dean all the way.