My Darling Boy

Sunday, March 11, 2011

     I don't think it is presumptuous to define Abra as a deep thinker.

     This may not be his exact words, but at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Bill Clinton said something that I -and Abra, of course - found interesting. He said, "In the past two hundred years, nobody has made money by betting against America."
     I always liked Clinton. He has a very bright mind. Also, I actually made money when he was president. Whatever else you can say about Bill Clinton, he and Al Gore did a remarkable thing  - they balanced the budget.  
     I remember seeing Al on David Letterman, promoting  the crusade to cut government spending, when he demonstrated a wasteful federal mandate by bludgeoning an ashtray with a hammer.  This was his Top Ten List describing the good things about being vice president.
10. Police escorts get you to the movies faster.
9. I got to play tetherball with the inventor of tetherball.
8. After they sign a bill, there's lots of free pens.
7. If you close your left eye, the seal on the podium reads: President of the United States.
6. I get intellectual property rights to my speeches.
5. Dan Quayle and Gerald Ford are easy to beat during vice presidents week on Jeopardy.
4. You don't have to be funny to get invited on the Letterman show.
3. You get all the french fries the president can't get to.
2. You don't have to be a good speller to get the job.
1. Secret Service code name: Buttafuoco.