The “comedian” Gallagher–he who smashes watermelons for sport–is also
in the race.
I remember in the final episodes of “Cheers,” Frasier masterminds
Woody’s
campaign for city office to prove that any fool can be elected. Woody,
of
course, wins, and Frasier explains, “It started out as a small joke and
turned
into a huge one.” I think the Founding Fathers would have a similar
opinion of
this farce, this disaster.
A professor of political science at Northwestern had a fairly good piece
on
explaining where the recall, initiative, and referenda came from in
Newsday
yesterday.
My favorite part:
Democracy is not like money, a good to be maximized. Let’s assume
that
having
some money is good, having more money is better and having the most
money is
best. It’s not similarly true that maximizing democracy is “best”
in the
sense of
maximizing the quality of government.