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My friend Featherless, who worries about politics, had been sweating out the possibility of a Gerald Ford candidacy. Featherless is a Democrat, and he was afraid the Republicans were on to something.
"Look," he said to me, as we lined up at the jeweler's to sell teaspoons and butter knives. "Reagan is not only a joke, he's an old joke. And Bush looks like one of those actors they get to play the President in spy movies. You know the phones on his desk aren't connected."
"Sure, but Carter and Kennedy aren't leading any parades either."
"That's just it. If we held the election...
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