Hanged as a horsethief......

'n I use that title in lieu of one that is coarser 'n much more offensive....

I promised m’self that I wasn’t gonna talk about politics ....at least, for awhile.....but it’s so hard not to comment sometimes.....About Colin Powell, f’rinstance.....a man spends his ‘hull life as an honest, hard-ridin’ cowboy ‘n only steals one horse to get hisself hanged as a horsethief....
‘N Tina Fey who doesn’t think she’s smart enuff t’be in public office...just goes to show ya how insecurities c’n mess up a body’s game plan....
And y’know, Tina’s not the only one I’ve heard comment that they think people elected to office should be smarter than plain ol’ folks....
I gotta take umbrage at that. And not becuz I’m smarter than the average bear, I’m not....I’m just one of them plain ol folk ‘n most of the people that I know are plain ol folk ‘n most of ‘em seem not only smart enuff to run this country at least as well as all those ‘superior’ types that Tina Fey wants to kowtow to but smart enuff to do a better job. At least they all manage to live within a budget without stealing from their neighbors. Y’know, I really don’t understand where that attitude came from anyway...I can’t ever remember anyone I grew up with saying that they tho’t someone was better or smarter because they went to an ivy league school...
The only thing proved by attendance at such a school was that more money was involved...’n having more money didn’t make anyone smarter....at least, not back then...
‘n I don’t think things have changed that much...reminds me on an old Tom T Hall song....’faster horses, more money, younger women’.....’cuz if you got more money, y’can buy faster horses ‘n younger women.....still, the old aphorism of getting what you pay for applies....I expect that if you believe that people with more money are smarter than you, they probably are....but that don’t mean that you’re smarter than people who have less than you.....what it means is that you’re a shallow person with a lot of insecurities....too bad for you.
Feels good to vent.....especially at three in the AM....