If they write about you there, they'll write about you anywhere
Barak Obama, a state senator from the South Side of my home town, Chicago, and the Democrat senatorial candidate in Illinois, is a star. Even The New Yorker has noticed him.
His Republican opponent- heartless, plutocratic inner-city school teacher Jack Ryan (no, not that Jack Ryan!)- is also a star. But he's a Republican, so the New Yorker hasn't noticed him. He is also, parenthetically, the ex-husband of Jeri Ryan, aka Seven of Nine. Everybody notices Jeri Ryan.
Whichever of these men wins the election to succeed Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (R-Ill.), an excellent legislator retiring out of weariness after a single term, will be heard from- big time- in national politics for years to come.
I badly want Ryan to win, and Obama to lose. But still, it's nice when a guy from the sleepy little village you're born in is recognized in New York.
Wow, as Ben Stein would say.
His Republican opponent- heartless, plutocratic inner-city school teacher Jack Ryan (no, not that Jack Ryan!)- is also a star. But he's a Republican, so the New Yorker hasn't noticed him. He is also, parenthetically, the ex-husband of Jeri Ryan, aka Seven of Nine. Everybody notices Jeri Ryan.
Whichever of these men wins the election to succeed Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (R-Ill.), an excellent legislator retiring out of weariness after a single term, will be heard from- big time- in national politics for years to come.
I badly want Ryan to win, and Obama to lose. But still, it's nice when a guy from the sleepy little village you're born in is recognized in New York.
Wow, as Ben Stein would say.
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