"So I am enthusiastic about Joe Biden, very enthusiastic."

So why didn't you support him fin his run for the Presidency?

>>Oh, there's another reason I'm for Biden. I think I elected him to the U.S. Senate in 1972, one of the youngest ever to serve.>>

Thank the Lord for you Marty -- It's a wonder they let anyone else vote.

lymon,

hee, hee..I was thinking about commenting on this rather revealing bit of grandiosity but didn't have the time. Glad you mentioned it.

I think...hope?...that The Old Grudge Holder was actually baiting his critics to see if we'd take it. Either that or he has so lost it that reading the Spine is now like seeing some aged senile uncle shuffling into the family party wearing his tattered stained terry robe, his yellowed toe nails clacking along the tile, and right there in front of the food, to the horror of all the kids and ladies, waving his crabbed long dead organ and snarling about some damn fool thing or another....

My Canadian 2 cents: $1.9239985607960584596 U.S. plus or minus the world's fluctuating response to Stephen Harper's sex appeal:

Hillary is his best choice but he won't choose her;

Biden is  his next best choice and I have no idea if he's the guy. If I had to guess I'd say it was Biden.

Uh make that: .9239985607960584596 etc.

oh yeah:

...Oh, there's another reason I'm for Biden. I think I elected him to the U.S. Senate in 1972, one of the youngest ever to serve...

How can you shape your mouth to say those words ? (as we used to say on the mean streets of the North End of Winnipeg too many years ago--though not as mean as the streets from which my cyber-buddy Ken sprung)

p.s. My theory: things are psychically slow in Peretz land today so he figures he'll do a little chain jerking with this bit of calculated outlandishness.

Am I crazy?  Or is there literally not one other person (not working for TNR) of any respect in main stream politics still talking about Gore as potential VP?  No I'm not crazy.  This ship sailed months ago, and now Marty's resurrecting it to tell us "Trust me, I have the inside dope.  That obvious thing that everyone already knows... is true."  Maybe Marty can grace us with a "Gravity is what keeps you from floating away ..." expose.  Pullitzer here you come...  

I get it, you went to college with Al Gore, and nobody's more impressed than me, but that doesn't mean every time he whispers something in your ear we need to hear about it.  What did he have for dinner last night?  

I was one of the last still standing up for TNR after it turned from a great magazine into a Slate level People magazine for pretentious douches, but I'm afraid even People magazine occasionally takes the time to decide that maybe not every sentence one of the editors utters deserves to be an article, or a blog post, or a whatever.  Can't we go back to no advertisements and intelligent articles about stuff people care about?  What's that you say?  Leon Weiseltier has 14000 word masterpiece about how ___________ (insert popular artist here) is really a hack and subjectivity in art appreciation is for retards?  Well then I suppose I could extend the subscription for another year... bang up job guys!  I can't believe I actually miss Jonah Goldberg in TNR.  

"I can't believe I actually miss Jonah Goldberg in TNR."

I don't.

That said, I'm still waiting for the Wieseltier piece on that Jeff Koons cyber-installation in TNR, "Jonah's Beef With Pamela Anderson."

Re The Great Elector: Marty didn't elect Biden. I did. With my bare f***ing hands, mind you.

sanda:  I may not agree with everything you say but I will defend to your death your right to say it. Plus, you are not crazy.

..."Jonah's Beef With Pamela Anderson."...

P to J: "where's the beef?

John Edwards for Veep!

hee, hee...

jwl, you are a bad boy...

Jaunty, thanks.

Basman -- yes, I once got a bit lost in Winipeg and was surprised to find myself in quite a seedy little section of the city which I believe was the "near north side."  So...I dunno, "un-Canadian" (I'm a complete cunnckophile -- love visiting Canada, wish gas prices were lower so I could make more road trips!)

jauntyboulevardier:

It's tongue-in-check, but I really have to commend Edwards on keeping his affair so tightly under wraps that the story's breaking just now.  I mean, aren't presidential candidates (and their VP's) looked at under an electron microscope? You would think that the Republican attack machine would have figured that one out within 10 seconds of "insertion. " Guess they're not as pervasive as Hillary thinks.

jwl...

you are a young man with a future in GOP politics...and your droll sense of humor sound help...

lymon1: I went to Chicago in 1992 to go to the Chicago Blues Festival and to take in a Bulls Lakers (if I remember) final. I'm ashamed to say it was my only time there and nights we hit the clubs  like Blues Etc. and the Kingston Mines. But what I want to say is how much parts of Chicago reminded me of Winnipeg but writ large of course so much larger: mid western city; lots of rail roads junctions and slaughter houses; big chunks of Eastern European immigrants; lots of fairly heavy indistry; and a tremendous homey feel in tight ethnic neighbourhoods. Man I loved Chicago and keep planning to get there again, but always wind up in Cleveland. I love the short stories Joseph Epstein writes  about Chicago.

basman -- I agree, Winnipeg is a lot like Chicago in those ways, plus both cities are their nation's respective Midwestern cultural mecca's.  (Hmm, does that make Thunder Bay Canada's Indianapolis?)

Being a Canadian living in Chicago I'd like to object to the use of both the terms cultural and mecca to refer to Winnipeg. The only thing they have in common is that they are cold. Toronto is Canada's midwest cultural mecca. Montreal being New York and Halifax being Boston. Winnapeg has absolutely nothing going for it other than being notably cold.

Regarding Peretz's comment regarding electing Biden, it's incredibly hard to detect the difference between humour and arrogance when dealing with some one who's comments are so frequently clearly arrogant. It would be helpful if perhaps he chose to let us more clearly know he was attempting humour.

It's not Al?  Thank God for small favors.

timothycat: 1. I envy you living in Chicago--exc ept for the cold; 2. I lived in Winnipeg from 6 to age of 14 --went to school with Burton Cummings--and now live in Toronto. Only a snobby Torontonian could say Winnipeg has nothing going for it. No other breed of Canadian would make that claim, not even cosmopolitan Montrealers. For example, Winnipeg's a great place to come from.