“ 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..
II
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..
III
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
IV
“I love you Iowans. I think I’ll buy a farm here.”
February 2, 2016 the City that never sleeps.
