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Posted at 2:09pm on Nov. 29, 2007 Why I did not watch the CNN/YouTube thing.

So this is politics?

By Mark Kilmer

I did not watch the CNN/YouTube debate last night. If you managed to sit through it, God bless you, but that sort of thing does not resemble the politics which drew me toward the process.

But I suppose I owe you an explanation.

WHY I DID NOT WATCH THE CNN/YOUTUBE GOP PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE.

* I'd just completed my radiation treatment regimen for throat cancer, and I had more pressing concerns than surveying twaddle. I suppose Clean House was on Style Channel – it always is when I am flipping through – but Bruckner's Symphony no 3 in D minor, the one Wagner really liked, by the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra under Hartmut Haenchen had just arrived via USPS earlier. And there's something to be said for our mail carrier. She's… better looking than Rudy Giuliani.

* I had heard that Ron Paul were going to be there, and I wasn't in the mood for a cipher. (Straight talk? Oh, right.)

* I'd heard the same of Dunc and Trancredo. I have nothing against middle-aged guys with long records of exemplary public service playing a little to their vanities, but the key modifier is "a little." Not a lot. It's time to move on, gentlemen.

* I don't much care to watch a lefty blue jean heiress, Anderson Cooper, pretend to be objective or to be a newsman. (His mommy is Gloria Vanderbilt.)

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