Look At Him!

 

This is just a personal opinion, but I liked "Newhart" better than "The Bob Newhart Show".

When I was a kid, I didn't understand the appeal of Bob Newhart.  He would stammer and do lame jokes about telephones calls with Abraham Lincoln and stuff.  He wasn't like Jerry Lewis, The Three Stooges, Bill Cosby, Steve Martin, or Monty Python.

But when I grew up, I put away my childish things, sort of.  I still laughed at Bill Cosby but I began finding Bob Newhart funny.

In his first show, Newhart played a psychologist who shared an admin with the dentist down the hall. His wife was Suzanne Pleshette who put the Hubba in Hubba-Hubba, at least for me, and I still stand by that today.

In the second show Newhart was the owner of a Bed And Breakfast in Vermont.  It took a little while for the show to get going, but when it did, it was very funny show.  Just ask Larry, his brother Darryl, and his other brother Darryl about that.  

Somehow, Newhart gets talked into hosting a talk show called "Vermont Today" and it was supposed to be a serious show for serious people.  Of course, that never happened.  In one episode, the president of the University of Vermont was supposed to be on the show. Instead, they got "The World's Smallest Horse".

When the owner of the horse and "Tiny" (the horse's name) appeared on the show, Newhart asked the owner how he knew the horse was the smallest in the world. 

The owner's answer:  "Look at him!"

To me that answers some of our current political questions.

 

Is Biden too old to be President?

Look at him. Does he seem like a man that can out work a forty-five year old man like Mike Barnicle just recently said?  No, that's just baloney, to be nice about it. The job was not designed for an 80 year old.

I'll let Charles C.W. Cooke explain it.

"Joe Biden is too old to be president. He’s too old to be president now, he’s too old to be president next year, he’s too old to be president in 2025. He’d be too old at his next inauguration, he’d be too old by the next set of midterms, he’d be too old when his second term wrapped up. He’s not vigorous or eloquent or diplomatic; he’s a rambling, angry, senile embarrassment. He can’t do the job at home, and he can’t do the job abroad. He can’t think, he can’t manage, he can’t talk. His judgment has always been poor, and he’s always been a terrible and dishonest person, and these flaws have been exacerbated by his age."

 

Isn't Trump too old to become President too?

Look at him.  He is in his late 70s and he has been losing a zip on his fastball. But he is seems way younger that Biden.   That's because Trump is a big baby.  Of course, he challenged losing the 2020 election. He was complaining that the Emmy Awards were "rigged" against him. Yet, what Cooke says about Biden holds true for Trump. "His judgment has always been poor and he's always been a terrible and dishonest person and this flaws have been exacerbated by his age."   This leads us to our next question...

Is Trump Fit To Be President?

He's done it before, so physically, he is fit.  He's just not emotionally fit to be President. You can run a private firm and make millions and act like Trump.  The problem is the country is not a privately held firm and you just can't hector people into falling in line. On top of that, he's a baboon.

 

What about Kennedy?

Look at him. This is not your grandpa's Kennedy.  He sort of looks like his dad and he has a pretty wife. But he has a lot of goofy ideas about childhood vaccines. Truth be told, a lot of people want to vote him because they think it would be cool to vote for a Kennedy.

 

Is Gavin Newsome running for President?

Look at him.  Of course he is, either in 2024 or 2028.  When he looks in the mirror, he doesn't see a failed governor of a state heading downhill fast.  He sees the next President of the United States. He thinks he can unite this divided land.  After all, he got Kimberly Guilfoyle to marry him.  

In the "Newhart" episode I mentioned, the show breaks down when a caller said "Tiny" was not the smallest horse in the world.  One thing led to another and various people who brought their in horses to "Vermont Today" including a woman that brought in her basset hound that wore a saddle, in an effort to win "The Smallest Horse" contest. That still cracks me up.

In that way, the 2024 election promises to be a circus. All these saddled basset hounds that think they are a horse.