Monday, June 2, 2008

“I’m leaving to spend more time with my family.”

Why do THEY even bother saying that? Everyone knows when people invoke The Family, it means they were sent packing for doing something really sleazy. But they do the dance every time: The sleaze-of-the-week is introduced in laudatory terms by the very party who told him to get out NOW! to avoid further toxic association with the disgraced resignee, who then slouches to the microphone and mumbles the lame line about “my family.” What, are we supposed to believe the guy woke up that day and said, “Oh no! I just remembered! I have a family!” The only one who could have legitimately said he was quitting to spend time with his family is Dennis Kucinich. Any day now, his way-hotter-than-he-is wife might look at a photo of the two of them and wonder what she was thinking.

3 comments:

Becky said...

I think he's a delusional narcissist like the Clintons, but at least he has a hot wife.

Lianda said...

One of the first things I learned in college was never talk about any research by saying "They studied ... and found". I don't remember very much from college, having attended during the late 60's & early 70s: the time of Love & Peace & Drugs & Rock'n'Roll,; but for some reason I do remember that lesson! Now, every time I hear some pedantic lout mouthing earth shattering results by announcing that "They found out".. something that you know is utterly false, I remember my lesson and smile knowingly.

-blessed holy socks, the non-perishable-zealot said...

Grrr. Git some followers, girly.