Wow. WOW. Did you know that there's a blog that's like Sugar for old women named Wow O Wow. That's how long I've been gone. Long enough for old women to start a blog. I bet you thought "she probably hasn't read anything." Well, you would think right. I haven't read a thing! Unless you count the Internet, in which case I've read it all. Wow.
Anyway, I thought I'd check the Book Bench blog at the New Yorker, which was always my go-to site for steeling — oh, sorry, stealing — content, and it did not disappoint. John Updike picked out books for all the candidates. Just like how some people vote, he picked one of his own.
For Obama I’d recommend a novel of mine called The Coup. It’s about an imaginary African country where the dictator pretends to hate the U.S., though he actually went to college here. The politics were based on Gaddafi—what’s he called, not Mohamed, Muammar, right? The joke is how unlike Obama my character is!
Ha! Updike you old coot, what do you have for McCain?
I think he should read another novel, Memories of the Ford Administration. It’s about an academic who hardly remembers Gerald Ford’s term in office because he was too busy committing adultery and researching James Buchanan’s presidency. Buchanan was old, tired, ineffective, and failed to prevent the Civil War; Abe Lincoln succeeded him. Maybe if McCain read the book he’d have the humility to realise he should gracefully yield to a younger, brighter man. Or maybe not.
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