On Drool

In the movies, I remember the vampire, just after feeding, lifting his head from the neck of some cute little starlet. There would be blood around his mouth, and a little trickle of it from one corner of his mouth, running down the side of the chin. It was a horrible sight, especially if you were young. Hammer Films was great at that sort of imagery, and I think a lot of the more horrific scenes in the horror movies of today got their start in what Hammer did for the silver screen.

There was another way to convey horror. Drool. A famous example of that would be Renfield, the half-crazed slave to Dracula in the old movie staring Bela Lugosi. Renfield’s wide, staring eyes, his demented “Heh, Heh, Heeeeeeh’, the drool from the corner of his mouth, could bring shivers to the spine of the most blasé of moviegoers.

It was a good way to convey insanity in movies other that horror movies. I never paid attention, so I can’t really say, but I wonder if anyone was drooling in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, or “Psycho”?

Surely, Norman Bates was entitled to a little drool, after all he was a total whack job!

When I looked up the word drool on the internet, I found out that he could be used as a noun or a verb.

Used as a noun, it means pretentious or silly talk or writing. That brought me pause! I couldn’t help but wonder how much or how many of my columns were considered to be drool. Not that it matters, gentle reader, I intend to continue writing columns as long as my fingers can reach the keyboard.
Anyway, to the other part of speech, the verb. The same dictionary source gives the following for a definition: be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something; "She was salivating over the raise she anticipated". This is what I want to look at. The verb. Skip envious, we all know about people that are envious of another’s fame, money, girl/boy friend, etc. It’s a human condition we’ve all been guilty of, at one time or another. We’ll discuss the other after I change the subject.

And the subject is television; to be more specific, the new television season. ABC is gracing the American public with a new series called “Commander in Chief”.

The idea behind the series is that a Presidential candidate chooses a woman as his Vice President, get elected, and then dies. The result is a female President of the United States. The premise is good, and, in my opinion, there’s a few women out there that could do a bang up job. The problem is that network TV tends to lean heavily to the liberal side on so many issues. The name of the game is political correctness.

NBC gave us “The West Wing”, a show that could have been interesting. But instead of a centrist President, they gave us a leftist, both in the character and in the actor that portrayed the character. The result was alienating a large portion of their audience right off the bat. Now ABC looks to be trying the same thing again. And I feel there is an ulterior motive. This may be the first time that TV was actively used as a political tool in the long term. The goal? The presidential elections of 2008. I found it interesting that the name of the production company for the series is Battle Plan Productions.

The question comes to mind, who would the program be alluding to? It’s pretty obvious who’s drooling (notice how I got back to my main theme?) to be President. Hillary Clinton. Unless she gets a strong message otherwise, she’s gonna use this program as a springboard for her entry into the race for the White House. And don’t think she’s not planning to use it.

But there’s a chance for a little ray of sunshine amidst all this gloom, and that’s where this column is heading. I want to help Hillary clean up her drool, and I want a lot of you out there to help get the message to her. It’s gonna take a little effort, but we have a lot of range in the Internet, if used properly. My columns are made available through http://www.capitolhillcoffeehouse.com, a web site that provides conservative news, views, and living. It’s a place for stimulating conversation, outrageous fun, and intellectual stimulation. The columns I provide are my intellectual property, and, as is noted at the bottom of this one, free use is granted to all who identify author. (Of course, I’d appreciate it if you mentioned that you heard about this campaign on Capitol Hill Coffee House!)

Now here’s the campaign:

Take a napkin from your napkin holder at home, or work, or Wendy’s, it doesn’t matter from where.

Write on the napkin the following, or use your own words (Please, no profanity or obscenity!) Dear Hillary, Change the channel, wipe the drool off your chin, and forget about being Commander in Chief. You won’t get my vote!

Sign it, fold it, and put it into an envelope.

Seal the envelope, and address it as follows: Sen. Hillary Clinton, D – NY, 476 Russell, Senate Office Building, Washington DC 20510.

Add a stamp, and drop it in the mail.

Tell all your friends to do the same.

Let’s send Hillary a message that, while we believe a woman can and someday will be President, it won’t be her. We had her husband for eight years, we don’t need more of the same.

Dave Hoffman, Chairman
“Wipe the Drool, Hillary”

NOTE: Copyright 09/11/05 by Dave Hoffman

Use granted to all who identify author.