You ask. I answer. One dollar.
According to the New York Post, “New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been implicated in a federal prostitution probe after it was discovered he had a tryst with a young high-class hooker the day before Valentine’s Day that landed on an FBI wiretap, sources said today.” Don’t try this at home.
The major theme is change. This election is all about change and about being willing to change and about bringing about change. I’m for it. Change is good because once you’ve changed something, it is different from what it was before. How would we like it if everything were the same all the time? No, that would not be good.
It is my firm (if malleable) belief that any candidate who espouses fixity as opposed to transmogrification in this campaign is not going to go anywhere when it comes to going on down the road. It will be the candidate of change who snags the best chance to move forward: the one who realizes that change is coming and that he can be an agent of change, and who enlists others in this noble cause in a mobile and fluid way, and without a lot of flabby flip-flopping. The world is changing constantly and we must change our policies to match. You can’t step into the same river twice unless you go back to that same river and step into it again.
What kind of variation ought to be envisioned? Maybe it doesn’t matter. So long as the proposed tweaking entails a heartfelt and winsome repudiation of stasis, maybe the content of the proposed revision is not so central. Sure, we like change to be an improvement by some standard or other. But a change for the worse can also be a change. And one man’s worse is another man’s better, and somebody else’s neutral or second gear. What I would affirm is that the candidate who triumphs in this realm, i.e., who really masters the whole change arena, will turn out to be the kind of change agent who not only can effect change but who by dint of even-toed cadence, posture and mellifluousness of slogan-slinging can also inspire the voters with the conviction that he is the sort of chipper changer-in-charge who can and will ride the wave of their unwavering support straight into the shifting, shuddering shoals of the happy land beyond the day after tomorrow with undaunted courage and integrity.
Change is in the wind and it is time that we stood up for change for once as we always do because this is America. This is what the successful candidate must convey, somehow; that we’ve got to all be on the same page about turning the page. This is what this presidential election is all about.
Change. Change, change, change. Change.
