Let me tell you about my buddy Hiro. He never uses a golf cart when we play. Where he hits the ball, its cheaper to take public transportation!

  • “Let me tell you about my buddy Hiro. He never uses a golf cart when we play. Where he hits the ball, it’s cheaper to take public transportation!”

This evening, after the dinner table is gleaming clean and the dishes are stacked neat in the drying rack, families across the rolling Republic are going to squeeze together on the couch, flip on the TV, and watch Law & Order of Beverly Hills. Or Real House Wives of Whatever. Kardashians? Why are there more Teen Moms? There’s no way Real World has been on for that long. Jimmy Fallon follows Conan right? What station number is the Hulu? What about the TV Apple station? . . .

Despite the usual media clusterfrick clogging up the nightly newscasts, tonight, struggling up through all that noise, there is an important signal on the airwaves worth pointing your antenna at: the State of the Union address, that annual presidential pep talk that’s supposed to walk us back from emotional and economic despair, uphill climb that may be. Another incentive to watch: this year, as President Obama addresses a bruised nation, a Clevelander is going to be court side, sharing a balcony seat with the First Lady.

This article appears in Jan 18-24, 2012.

3 replies on “Local Businessman Invited to Sit With First Lady at SOTU”

  1. I have no idea what this article is about. I only want to express my ideas as far as Ohio is concerned. I just watched the news about Jimmy D and his sins against the republican party. The sins amounted today in court of 14,000 dollars beings spent over the last ten years on transportation from Cleveland to other destinations around Ohio and the general vicintity. A dead guy paid for the transportation yet somehow the fox news and local republican party feel as though they paid for this transportation service. I would like to tell all in the area that the two thousand dollars per year which Jimmy spent other guys money on to go to places in a stretch limo did not cost the republican party a dime. The shame is not of Frank or Jimmy but of the republican party who used some penny-anti bull-shit to gain the governorship and the rule of an entire state. The FBI has always been more interested in their lynchings than the country and now with J. Edgar long gone they still operate in the same dysfunctional way. When the government starts to operate with the peoples’ real interests it will see that censorship and snubbing the freedom of speech are the real enemy which we face in 2012 and before.

  2. I will now watch the State of the Union in my free country of the USA and cheer my president on in his movement to give people power and to take the power away from the 1% and the out-of-connect republican party.

  3. While Jimmy and Frank are being punished, the Wolfe Family and the Columbus Dispatch and the underwear company are making about one million dollars per hour.

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