Meetings With Remarkable Men
“So that’s three Mickey Mantles and a Roberto Clemente for your Rod Carew and Juan Marichal? It’s a deal.”
It depends on your definition of the term “meeting”:
Barack Obama has gone out of his way to make his incoming administration Clintonesque. Not only has he built 63% of his transition team from Clinton administration officials, he even picked Hillary Clinton for a Cabinet post. Now Obama appears to have restored another Clinton tradition — in word parsing.
I didn’t lead with this picture because, while it’s even more evidence of contact between Governor Sonofabitch and The Elect, it’s not clear Obama even knows with whom he’s shaking hands:
“B-l-a-g—uh, uh—let me guess—o-y-o—uh, uh, don’t tell me, uh, uh—v-i-t—uh, uh—c-h? What is that, Polish?