“All the King’s mewn”, the Huey Long saga in Llouisana, Adward Arnold’ swan song”Come and get it”, and Brian Donlevy’sagerical blustering stint in “the Great McGinty” epic political flicks during the 20th century….
II
“To get ahead, you need your DNA and brain cells in a Confucious operating moded claimed the Sultan of Swat as he pointed his hand in direction of the knot ho,le kikds, sitting in the right field bleachers at
Yankee Stadikum, Babe Ruith h noring Lou Gherig,. His hero, leaving the game, his body crashing after playing in thousands of consecutive games.
“I the luckiest manm on the face of this Earth”, he said,speakinginto the mike, kickling up the dust at home plate…..
III
Thus began the long last splendor of ournation’s political hysteria in the 21st Century, a duel in the Republic’s twiglightbetween two adversaries, slugging it ut, using e very atifice in their Machiavellian handbook to capture the White House’s ovbal office.
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May the b est “man” win, the Sultan of Swat, transcending thegame, pointing to the bleachers whyere the knothole kids were swaggering on thir own heroics as the vsiuons they were b eholden to, were playing out, on and off the field..
Octob er30, 2016. The City that nev er sleeps.
