Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Disgusted with presidential politics? Have you grown cynical from the proliferation of obnoxious campaign spin-doctors? Well, read on, my weary friends. You may perhaps experience excruciatingly ironic delight from the following episode...
This air of comic unreality not only pervades the debates, but also the whole parade of presidential electioneering. Currently I have a fascination with spin-doctors, those masters of empty chatter who pump up their clients in press gatherings before major appearances. These wonderful creatures infest the debate halls, taking the spoken language to undiscovered levels of pap, hot air and irrelevance in order to make journalists do the same. The pity is that these spinners should only exist in the political domain...
...have seriously considered employing my own spin-doctor, to be of use in several circumstances. Imagine it's a Saturday night, you're stumbling to a party through mists of rain, the brain clouded with a few spirits. At the soiree, as you leave your coat and gloves with the attendant, and your presence is announced to the assembled gathering, you suddenly see, through a passing haze of colored silk and crystal glass, a man/woman to your liking. Unfortuately the necessary preamble of introduction and mutual mental exploration simply isn't within your power. Call the spin-doctor. Along trots...
...take a hint. I won't try to put a positive spin on the next loss...
That is the inherent problem with presidential debates: what is remembered is the theatrics, the contrived drama, the carefully rehearsed sound bites. Lost in the spin control are those rare insightful moments that foreshadow what a would-be President actually will do in office, the crises he will face and, yes, the fateful errors of judgment that are to be his legacy...