Casting The Role Of An American President – all Business Is Show Business!
So, I’m channel surfing in my New York City hotel room, organizing the junk I lugged from a conference to my hotel room floor, junk I’m about to pay an exorbitant surcharge to lug over the border and then throw out once I get home. No point in channel surfing,’cause there’s only one thing on, presidential hopefuls strutting their stuff.
Even with the volume turned off it didn’t take me long to size ’em up.
Disclaimer. I have no business writing an article about American politics. I know nothing about politics and I’m Canadian to boot.
But I do know that all business is show business and politics is no exception.
After glancing at the chorus line of official Democratic contenders, I picked a couple to whom I’d give a call-back (or as they say on American Idol, send “To Hollywood” for the next round). Who? An uptight looking woman and a magnetic “what’s his ethnicity?” guy with an intriguing name. The rest of ’em? A bunch of boring looking old white guys in suits.
A month...