Midnight in Marbella, our dinner at Antonio’s, down in the hyper-chic port area where the King of Saudi Arabia anchors his modest yacht this time of year, ended a bit after midnight. Great food, plenty expensive (but Barbara and I are guests, so we simply gasp, it is painless), but the dorada with garlic is terrific, the fresh fruit spectacular, and the passing scene is dazzling. It seems every rich kid within a thousand miles is here, and the quantity of clothing is inversely proportional to the class standing of the kid. The richer you are, the less you wear. Great for the morale of aging folks like me. And after dinner you can shop. The stores are open until 2 A.M. So the next time someone tells you Americans are crazy because they work ridiculous hours, tell them about Marbella.
Great flight back on Iberia, which offers free email and text messaging on board. Soon there will be no hiding from the IT, which I think is bad news. Good movies, good music, comfortable seats, seemingly brand new planes. I suppose the food is ok, but it seems to have been chosen to make sure that the Jews and Muslims starve. Pork in almost everything, soup to salad. Eurabia has not reached Spanish airline kitchens, apparently. But there was a good vegetarian plate, and plenty of good bread and cheese, so I got even fatter…sigh.
Got home to the news that it’s groovy Joe Biden for Obama’s veep nominee. I love that, I think they’re a perfect match. Two men totally infatuated with their own voices. I can just hear each of them thinking, “God, I love that voice. Such a voice. What a pleasure that it’s MY voice. And I’m going to make sure everyone listens to it all the time, no matter what it says, the important thing is to keep it flowing, keep it coming, it’s so beautiful, so hypnotic, so…so eloquent, it’s eloquent no matter what the words, it’s just fantastic, and it’s MINE.”
I love this presidential campaign.
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7 Comments
1. winston:This is one crazy presidential campaign. I am hopeful that Senator McCain wins. The oppressed people of the world need his wisdom and leadership more than ever.
Aug 24, 2008 - 8:23 pm 2. Brian:A thousand thank youze.
What a wonderful post — beautifully personal and entertaining initially, segueing cleanly into a whimsically humerus — but devastatingly incisive — take of Obama’s selection of smiling Joe Biden for his VP choice.
I’ll drift off to sleep tonight with a smile on my face.
Aug 24, 2008 - 9:04 pm 3. Dan:I want to hear more about Spain!
Clearly this bachelor has got to get there.
Aug 24, 2008 - 9:35 pm 4. Curt:With Obama and Biden together on the same ticket, the Democrats have the arrogance vote all sewed up.
Aug 25, 2008 - 10:38 am 5. j green:So we are to believe that Obama is such an honest man, and he picked an honest VP, too.
Some poor sap might say: “Poor Biden, he’s so honest that he rides the train home to small town Wilmington every single night. He’s so honest that he didn’t even buy a home in D.C.”
I beg to differ. He goes home ever night so his sons are able to properly raise funds–so the donors know that the old man is just down the street and he’s still one of them–not a transplant to Washington.
I would also argue that the fact that after 28 years in the Senate Bonehead Biden doesn’t have a home in D.C. itself shows impracticality in judgement and overall incompetence. Barry Hussein wants that idiot for VP?
He lives in Wilmington because he needs to be there–not because he’s so honest. Any other person would have at least rented a crash pad in town, but there obviously is some benefit to him making the over two hundred mile round trip EVERY SINGLE NIGHT. If he is so stupid as to not have a roof over his head in D.C. after almost 30 years, he’s too stupid to be VP. I wonder how many dinner tables his sons have?
Independently wealthy since before she married John McCain, Cindy McCain’s financial activities have absolutely nothig to do with John’s whatsoever. Yet they now make fun of John McCain’s “kitchen tables”.
But they conveniently ignore Biden’s sons, who make money from their father’s position as a U.S. Senator–they are cashing their father in, and no one asks about how many kitchen tables $100,000/year retainers and $1.2 million annual cash salaries can buy for them. The senator from MBNA carries the water for the banks which employ one of his sons, and the MSM is too busy to ask the proper questions.
Aug 25, 2008 - 7:36 pm 6. Clytemenstra:That 36 years in the Senate! And I read that Biden will continue his campaign to be reelected to his 7th term.
Aug 26, 2008 - 7:07 am 7. kourosh:Wasn’t Joe Biden named the most impolite politician in US history? Why Dems selected a man famous for lousy tongue? Well, I guess they wanted to have a low class attack dog.
Aug 27, 2008 - 12:33 pm