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Would you like some cheese with your whines?

July 15, 2008

Dear Gov. Ventura

You mentioned last night on television that god had never spoken to you or at least you had never heard him doing so. Well, here I am. I am Politico-Bacchus, the god of politics and wine, two deities rolled into one, and I am talking to you. To paraphrase Pete Townsend, “Jesse, can you hear me?”
It never occurred to me until last night that so many whines could be packed into a half-hour of television. Let’s see: Coleman is a chickenhawk, Franken should have a bigger lead, the local media attack your family, you don’t know if you’re going to vote in the next election. There must have been a lot of cheese in the greenroom before Larry King’s game of softball questions.
You still have until five o’clock today to register to run for the U.S. Senate, and as Politico-Bacchus, the god of politics and wine, I am urging you to file. (“Jesse, can you hear me?”) If you truly believe you are a “statesman,” as you told The Midwest Wine Connection, and want to serve your country, then step into the fray again and make this a better campaign.
If you don’t, perhaps we can only infer you’re like a good California Zin, bold and spicy when first uncorked but flat and stale when left open too long.

Yours Truly,
Politico-Bacchus, the god of politics and wine



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