Garrison Keillor: Down with individualism

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Garrison Keillor: Down with individualism

http://host.madison.com/ct/opinion/column/garrison-keillor-down-with-individualism/article_30edf320-5e4d-575d-b56c-91dd42d1fb63.html

GARRISON KEILLOR | national columnist 20 hrs ago
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...............The race between Madame President and Il Duce is a classic duel between the organization woman and the visionary who imagines himself on a white horse waving a flaming sword. Madame is an ambitious nerd like the small-town church women I knew in my youth who did good works in behalf of civility and learning and now she's up against the Leader of the Pack, revving his engine, the dude with Flashiest Chick, Hottest Car, Coolest Clothes. Her speeches tend to disappoint people because they're not All About Her. She doesn't seem to have had a profound spiritual crisis that gave her a vision. Instead of a vision, she had a strong mother.

I go to a woman doctor and this may be one reason the thought of Hillary Clinton in the White House does not fill me with blind rage. My doctor is smart and crisp in manner and she has performed intricate noninvasive procedures on me that have made my life better, meanwhile I know men who stuck with their old golf partner Earl who is also a urologist and those men get up 13 times during the night to pee and must wear dark trousers.
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A great many menopausal white men like myself have a problem dealing with smart ambitious women. They like waitresses. Waitresses know this. They know not to make old men feel stupid, especially the ones who are. That's the side the bread is buttered on.

............................................It is preventable if we will just follow a few simple rules. See paragraph 1.

[Demsrule86]

1. I enjoyed this.

Thanks...rec.

[Jerry442]

2. A man who dislikes smart, ambitious women...

...has a whole heckuva lot of issues he needs to work on.

[Roland99]

3. I took it to mean he's referring to other white males his age

those who comprise the bulk of Faux News' demographics, for instance.

[Jerry442]

4. Yeah, Keillor himself sounds pretty cool. NT

[oberliner]

5. Which is exactly his point

Note his comment about his female doctor versus Earl, the urologist.

[Jerry442]

6. Dark trousers. LOL

[mountain grammy]

7. A million recs and off to facebook

I love A Prairie Home Companion and Garrison Keillor. Such simple, funny wisdom.