Before you head out tonight, go to SgtHook and visit. He's looking to hit 50K before 2004 and he's heading for Afganistan - so the least we can do is click him.
Now, I don't mean to go into a nostalgia thing, but William McKenzie at the Dallas Morning news is urging me into it by comparing Dean's Candidacy with John Anderson's.
For you youngsters who don't remember Anderson, he ran as a sort of liberal Republican against Reagan in 1980. I worked for him, in a more idealistic time for old AWA. Plus, I was still young, just out of the Army and the word was Dutch was gonna take on the Rooskies on his first day in office. After he blasted the Iranians off the map.
But who really cares about John Anderson anymore, except I think McKenzie gets it right when he said Anderson's campaign was about ideas (50 cent a gallon Gas tax to fund social security was the biggie), while the Duck's got none - only positions. No, I want to talk about a more important thing that happened in 1980. Wrestling!
You see, to me, 1980 meant political action, just like it does today. And for political action in 1980, no one wrestled better than Bob Backlund, the WWF champion. Bob's big move was a cross-face chicken-wing. Wow, now that has some political fodder for today, doesn't it? Howard the Duck's cross-faced on about 10 different issues, that's for sure, and Gen Clark's sure no Chicken, but he's got that chicken-heel vibe going on. But you know, Backlund was a great champ, basically the man before Hulk Hogan took the Fed to new heights (after a transitional Championship by the Iron Shiek). But in 1980, just like today, you had a man who wasn't champion yet, but was up and coming. He was breathing down the necks of men like Giant Baba and Harley Race and Dusty Rhodes. Ric Flair - the Nature Boy! Howard the Dean is hoping he's the Nature Boy of today. He's nodding toward the Nature nuts, of course. He's got the white hair thing happening.
But Howie - as asage once said, "To be the Man,. You Gotta Beat the Man." If you want to beat Dubya, you better have an idea or two, but you better come out choppin', like old 'Natch. Because Dubya's gonna make you job. And that's the bottom line. (need more cliches?)
AWArulz
Now, I don't mean to go into a nostalgia thing, but William McKenzie at the Dallas Morning news is urging me into it by comparing Dean's Candidacy with John Anderson's.
For you youngsters who don't remember Anderson, he ran as a sort of liberal Republican against Reagan in 1980. I worked for him, in a more idealistic time for old AWA. Plus, I was still young, just out of the Army and the word was Dutch was gonna take on the Rooskies on his first day in office. After he blasted the Iranians off the map.
But who really cares about John Anderson anymore, except I think McKenzie gets it right when he said Anderson's campaign was about ideas (50 cent a gallon Gas tax to fund social security was the biggie), while the Duck's got none - only positions. No, I want to talk about a more important thing that happened in 1980. Wrestling!
You see, to me, 1980 meant political action, just like it does today. And for political action in 1980, no one wrestled better than Bob Backlund, the WWF champion. Bob's big move was a cross-face chicken-wing. Wow, now that has some political fodder for today, doesn't it? Howard the Duck's cross-faced on about 10 different issues, that's for sure, and Gen Clark's sure no Chicken, but he's got that chicken-heel vibe going on. But you know, Backlund was a great champ, basically the man before Hulk Hogan took the Fed to new heights (after a transitional Championship by the Iron Shiek). But in 1980, just like today, you had a man who wasn't champion yet, but was up and coming. He was breathing down the necks of men like Giant Baba and Harley Race and Dusty Rhodes. Ric Flair - the Nature Boy! Howard the Dean is hoping he's the Nature Boy of today. He's nodding toward the Nature nuts, of course. He's got the white hair thing happening.
But Howie - as asage once said, "To be the Man,. You Gotta Beat the Man." If you want to beat Dubya, you better have an idea or two, but you better come out choppin', like old 'Natch. Because Dubya's gonna make you job. And that's the bottom line. (need more cliches?)
AWArulz
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