It Just Gets Crazier In The Big Apple
In 1993, President Bill Clinton appeared before a joint session of Congress to deliver a high-stakes address on healthcare. When he got to the podium, he discovered that the wrong speech, an old State of the Union address, had been loaded into the teleprompter. For seven minutes he half-winged, half-read from a print copy. For his aides, that was a long seven minutes. A young, extremely dismayed George Stephanopoulous muttered to Mike Feldman, an Al Gore aid, “This is the worst thing that’s ever happened.” “I dunno,” Feldman replied, “the Holocaust was pretty bad.” That’s sort of how I feel about the reaction among many of my friends to the other day’s election results in New York City. It is really bad, I mean, unless you are a communist or socialist. But as with all things, you have to ask, “Compared to what?” Several Democratic Socialist candidates, one or two who might hav...