A Commentary on the Passing Scene by
Robert Paul Wolff
rwolff@afroam.umass.edu
Saturday, April 27, 2019
CAUTIONARY NOTE
All of us are being counseled by our betters to suck it up,
stop whining, and get on board for Uncle Joe because he is our best bet,
perhaps our only bet, to beat Trump.It
is worth reading this from Josh Marshall’s TPM before we take the pledge.
If Joe Biden wins the primaries, and I hope he doesn't, he had better pick a surpassingly, and surpassingly obvious, omni-competent running-mate. Poor Joe, in and of himself, and at the age of 77, does not inspire confidence---just as Professor Wolff, at the age of 85, DOES.
Bless you for that, but I am painfully conscious that I have, as they say in baseball, lost a step. [It is said that late in his career, Joe DiMaggio, early in a game, would put all his energy into uncorking a throw from center field to the plate, to discourage base runners from taking an extra base on his arm, aware that later in the game he would be unable to make that throw.]
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ReplyDeleteIf Joe Biden wins the primaries, and I hope he doesn't, he had better pick a surpassingly, and surpassingly obvious, omni-competent running-mate. Poor Joe, in and of himself, and at the age of 77, does not inspire confidence---just as Professor Wolff, at the age of 85, DOES.
ReplyDeleteBless you for that, but I am painfully conscious that I have, as they say in baseball, lost a step. [It is said that late in his career, Joe DiMaggio, early in a game, would put all his energy into uncorking a throw from center field to the plate, to discourage base runners from taking an extra base on his arm, aware that later in the game he would be unable to make that throw.]
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