Political Football

Ok – this is my second attempt – after having written such a nice first post with lots of nice compliments to our gracious host, -pf but the first post (argh!) disappeared into cyber oblivion.  I’ll write more again later with more of what I orginally wrote by way of background info in different posts.  But now (via telephone tutorial session) -pf is asking me to share some of my credentials (such as they are) that make me somewhat qualified to opine. 

I grew up in a politically active family – my dad was longtime chair of the Republican Party in the town I grew up in and before that was Precinct chair in the Bronx.  My mom was always president of the Women’s Republican Club.  As a young child I was trotted out to serve peanuts at many cocktail parties.  Years later as a grown up I was peripherally involved in town politics and some neighbors still say I have a keen insider’s look (thanks Mom and Dad).

Majored in American Studies (not History) at Smith College (graduated in 1989) and had always wanted to end up in DC but alas, was not to be.  I still hold on to my belief born out of a college class on Presidential Elections that the system was irrevocably broken at the dawn of the TV Presidential Primary age.  Remember – we got my adored Harry S. Truman (yes, I know he was a Democrat) because of back room party leaders calling the shots – and he turned out ok.  Nowadays I don’t think President Truman would have a chance if he were on TV.

-pf thinks I have stuff to say that makes sense so she is inviting me to post from time to time – not so much to link other stories but to opine personally on what’s going.

 Look forward to posting periodically and hopefully you’ll all think my comments - whether you agree or not – are worth reading.

Libra Girl

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