Current Affairs, Pit Bull With Lipstick


by DAVID LOVATTSMITH - Date: 2008-09-08 - Word Count: 265 Share This!

Just when we thought it couldn't get any worse, it did.

After months- years it seems, sometimes- of good old sexism, racism, lies, broken promises, scandals, slanging matches, insults, knee-capping, it just sank to a new low.

Pit Bull with lipstick.

I mean, yuk. Shades of Marshall Arisman, or James Ellroy on a bad day, with killer hangovers. Or of shemale websites, or archive photos of Nazi concentration camps.

Pit Bull with lipstick.

Stalin, Herman Göring, Pol Pot.

Pit Bull with lipstick.

Strange thing is, the lady in question touts herself as a hockey mom. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't young kids- hockey kids or otherwise- one of the pit bull's favorite snacks?

Pit Bull with lipstick.

Seemingly, the lady in question is an astute politician, adept at flip-flopping like a veteran, ear-marking with the best of them. How come, then, she risks the electoral wrath of pit bull owners, presumably the ne plus ultra in macho, by inferring that their favorite pooches are transvestites?

Pit Bull with lipstick.

And when, o when, are our politicians going to lay off American Idol wannabe writers who think only in terms of one-liners? I mean, this is the time to elect someone who will stop the carnage in Iraq and Afghanistan, in the mortgage market, in the energy crisis, in the drug wars, and in the corrupt corporate boardrooms. Surely there are more important, pressing, vital issues to discuss than...

Pit Bulls with lipstick.

In an already over-extended, hitting-below-the-belt presidential election, this was... the pits.

David Lovattsmith knows well the pits of South Yorkshire


Related Tags: presidential election, dog lovers, one-liners

Your Article Search Directory : Find in Articles

© The article above is copyrighted by it's author. You're allowed to distribute this work according to the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs license.
 

Recent articles in this category:



Most viewed articles in this category: