Quacks like a duck….walks like a duck

“ Quacks like a duck….walks like a duck…..An old cowhand from the Rio Grande” sand one of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, as the Iowan caucus for the Democratic nod for the Presidency of our United States of America approaches the minute by minute hand, the caucus 7 p.m. date with destiny

playing out.

The James Madison High School graduate at age 74, tying Hillary Clinton for first place in Iowa’s testing for the White House as President Obama closes out his two terms.

“I may buy a farm in Iowa. I love you Iowans,” claimed the humbled Donald Trump , once of Coney Island, and the Big Apples Trump Towers…points North of Luna Park, Steeplechase, the Parachute Jump, the boardwalk,  Archie Leach(Cary Grant) on stilts, hawking franks and sauerkraut for two bits..

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Adlai Stevenson lost his sense of  Abe Lincoln’s metaphor, Presidents Harry Truman withered the “Hiroshima Mon Amour” and FDRs four term father figure and paralysis, Eleanor ,his  wife, at his side, have come and gone from  our Constitutional birthmarks:  Bernie Sanders’s children of immigrants, raised in a rent controlled apartment, some seven decades from Burlington Vermont, “here comes the Revolution” from a Socialist labeled a “man of the people”  a neighboring Bethlehem, New Hampshire urchin… of Old Man Ness and the White Mountains’ ski slopes..

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J.F.K’s Camelot has come and gone. The “Tea Party” haveoverthrown the barrels from the Boston harbor, showing theirRevolutionary fervor, not paying taxes on the English originated bares of tea.

“So what?”

“What has changed?” asked CNN’s Chris Cuomo, the late Governor Mario and Matilda’s son, of N.Y. asked of Senator Sander’s  wife Jane.”I love Bernie more than ever.”

Bill Gates couldn’t do what he once did with IBM… Microsoft.”But I love Bernie more than ever,” said Jane, his wife, once from Brooklyn too, repeat0ing her oath of faith.                                               IV

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“I love you Iowans. I think I’ll buy a farm here.”

February 2, 2016  the City that never sleeps.

When Greta Garbo claimed

When Greta Garbo claimed “I vant to be alone” her audience failed to recognize she was identifying with her persona .

That her “Camille” like Charlie Chaplin on the Venice,California roller rink,(1939) found his persona “The Tramp”…the derby, the mustache, the baggy pants, the oversized  shoes.. Charlie twirling his cane.

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If Greta and Charlie’s  Dna’s were contesting their personas in the Hawkeye State of Iowa, the first caucus projected in four days. Monday, February 1,. The stage being set for the battle tested persona (politicians) candidates into their vocals, for  thehighest office in the land. The Presidency of our United States of America.

So when Donald Trump, once of the Trump Towers of Coney Island and the Big Apple, elected to use his persona, to promote a rival scene down the block, to the relative conventional debate,among the other Republicans , pressing their fleshy and flashypersonas for the Hawkeye electorate come Monday, February 1.

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Whether it’s the Des Moines ambiance   or not, Charlie and Greta “”I vant to be alone” their enduring personas milked the crowd…the hog farmers, Senior Citizens,…….the religiousright, the college students from Drake……the conservatives……. “I appreciate your political frame of mind. The dynamic metamorphosed as the Donald , offended by Fox News wise cracking his persona, having a showdown with the Kremlin’s Putin and Iran’s Ayatollah.

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The bottom line was “the use of weapons of mass destruction”was a fiction  by golly, the  propaganda  “unbelievable” toDemocrats likes Senator Bernie Sanders of Brooklyn and Vermont, or Hillary Clinton, their ages 74 and 69, their personas resonating with the undecided Hawkeyes, but  the pervading  Rock star personas, their charisma into  96  more hours  and the voting booth.

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Second and third generation personas wrestling their lines at the Trump Veterans charity. “I  feel good  taking the 6 million dollars”, confessed the persona … the Angelicas and the politically incorrect out of sorts.

“I VANT TO BE ALONE’,” said Greta, fading into the starry Hawkeye night.  

January 28, 2015.The City that never sleeps.

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Didja ever see a blind man who didn’t smile?

“Didja ever see a blind man who didn’t smile?” asked Joe the Pro, after relegating the Art Garfunkel of Simon&Garfunkel, New Hampshire primary for the Democratic choices for the Presidency of our United States of America.

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While a brutal blizzard was attacking those North Eastern States several days before the primary, the CNN tee v journalists and commentators were  pitching their open minded arguments for Hillary Clinton …”the latest polls show….” a 9th inning stance by Vermont’s Senator Bernie Standers….Art Garfunkel of Simon & Garfunkel)  giving ”America” to Bernie’s campaign in New Hamposhire.

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The once gravel turned snow that highlights the window of the race in this granite state of the Old Man of the White Mountains is that the alleged Bernie Sanders is a graduate of Brooklyn’s Madison High School, off Kings Highway, in elevator apartment  Flatbush..

The high school bears the once “rich and fame” basketball junkies: the Rader twins, Stan Waxman, Ozzie Shectman under the aegis of  mentor “coach Jammy” Moskowitz, his enduring reputation into retirement at 92ish in Boca Raton, Florida.

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How does one account for Blossom Silverman The opera diva Beverly Sills  courting Burt Lancaster to join her at Lincoln Center in the role of director, Supreme Court Associate JusticeGinsberg “cutting the cords”, the “21” club Harvard LawSchool Lee Kreindler , Paul Edelman  his partner…. his brother Harold into the architectural firm Edelman and Edelman, his wife and partner Judy passing at 92…Harold nicknaming his Cornell roommate A. Quincy Jones, the architect for UCLA’sresearch library,(our stepdaughter’s father in law).……

All children of immigrants. So Bernie Sanders is in good company as they say.      And then that blondish Janice Shaker booking Charlton Heston  exhorting “King Harry V” in the Fly over that dampish afternoon, outside Cambridge….the joint USAF-RAF Base .Yours truly and his frau, to the Queen’s Opening Duxford Museum, outside Lakenheath RAF base, and Ely British Rail, to Edinborough, Scotland.,

the site of the Queen’s summer castle.

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Thanks to Janice Shaker booking our journey, Queen Elizabeth dedicating the museum at Duxford.  Madison High Schoolacross the pond, off Kings Highway, Flatbush, Brooklyn.

“Didja ever see a blind man who didn’t smile?” asked Joe the Pro.

January 23, 2016  The City that never sleeps.