The real deal about Daschle

The mainstream media would have you believe that Tom Daschle withdrew his nomination because of tax issues. Not so; it is because his glasses are ridiculous.

Do you think Mrs. Daschle OK'd these glasses when Tommy brought 'em home from the optometrist? Most eyeglass places have a generous return policy; he must have laid down the glasses-fashion law from the outset: "It's the new Tom Daschle, bitch. I'm up out the Senate and doing my thug thizzle. Lay off the glasses."

When I watched the pre-election 'Frontline' documentaries about the McCain and Obama campaigns, I thought it was creepy enough that Daschle had taken Obama under his wing in a kind of kingmaker role. It was like Daschle is the creepy, semi-paedophilic manager of a boy band, looking for cute 16 year-old lads whose faces he could sell. (Except he was starting out with the blank canvas of the Obama US Senate career and trying to paint the perfect Presidential candidate.) But add to that baseline level of creepiness the inherent "eww" factor of those red glasses, and I knew all was not well in Daschle-land.

If those same glasses were in black, or brown, I might give him a pass. They would scream "a-hole leftist pseudo-intellectual jerkoff douche nozzle", but I would still give him a pass. A solid 30% of my wardrobe screams at least one of those words, so who am I to judge? However, make those glasses red, and suddenly he's the community college sociology professor who's strongly suggesting that the cute but slow 18 year-old coed with a limp comes by his place the next evening for a casual get-together since office hours are so formal and stuffy.

So in short, yes, we're well shot of Tom Daschle and his freakish eyewear.

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