- One of these guys is a cynical and seedy looking old senior citizen who acts like he already had a snootful before he went into the bar.
- The other guy is in his early forties and comes across as that nice, polite young man from accounting in counterpoint to the senior citizen's bombastic BS and Herb Tarlick persona.
- Anyhow, these two Irishmen pull up chairs at the same table as a fairly attractive professional woman in her forties and try mightily to get her attention and win her approval.
- Mind you, the good looking and well mannered young guy is at a disadvantage in that the woman is a friend of the senior citizen's boss who was even at her wedding and she also mere months ago attended a charity function at the senior's residence.
- In any case, the woman being predisposed toward the old Herb Tarlick guy begins the conversation by putting the younger man on the spot and asking him the tougher questions even though the older man has been in power for about forty years.
- The polite and serious younger guy proceeds to calmly and methodically and with specific facts and figures answer the woman's questions which causes the senior citizen to rudely interrupt the younger fellow and to laugh, snicker, giggle, chortle, mug and smile derisively at everything the younger man says.
- Murders of four Americans in Libya draw an amused chuckle and an arrogant smirk from the older guy.
- A possible thermonuclear war with Iran strikes the senior as another knee slapper causing him great amusement.
- Another thing that greatly amuses the senior is fewer Americans working than at any time in the past thirty years and 23 million Americans unemployed, under employed and given up looking for work.
- In between his constant silly grins, inapprorpriate and discourteous laughs, ridiculous mugging for attention, impolite and rude interruptions while the younger Irishman is speaking, the senior citizen occasionally delivers a bombastic barrage of BS about how wonderful things are and how stupid anyone would be to try to change the status quo and deal with the alleged problems faced by the country. Like his role model Herb Tarlick, the older man's comments are shallow, obtuse, misleading and vague and designed to appeal to morons.
- Meanwhile, the younger man keeps his cool and his civility, speaks in depth and with specifics and a coherent approach to the things that matter and need doing and demonstrates the patience of Job as the older chap exhibits the emotional maturity and intellectual depth of a particularly obnoxious and addled adolescent.
- So who do you think the woman at the table wound up siding with at the end of 90 minutes of conversation?
- The old Democrat, stupid, this was a bar inside The Beltway and the woman was a member of the Washington media.
- The other guy is in his early forties and comes across as that nice, polite young man from accounting in counterpoint to the senior citizen's bombastic BS and Herb Tarlick persona.
- Anyhow, these two Irishmen pull up chairs at the same table as a fairly attractive professional woman in her forties and try mightily to get her attention and win her approval.
- Mind you, the good looking and well mannered young guy is at a disadvantage in that the woman is a friend of the senior citizen's boss who was even at her wedding and she also mere months ago attended a charity function at the senior's residence.
- In any case, the woman being predisposed toward the old Herb Tarlick guy begins the conversation by putting the younger man on the spot and asking him the tougher questions even though the older man has been in power for about forty years.
- The polite and serious younger guy proceeds to calmly and methodically and with specific facts and figures answer the woman's questions which causes the senior citizen to rudely interrupt the younger fellow and to laugh, snicker, giggle, chortle, mug and smile derisively at everything the younger man says.
- Murders of four Americans in Libya draw an amused chuckle and an arrogant smirk from the older guy.
- A possible thermonuclear war with Iran strikes the senior as another knee slapper causing him great amusement.
- Another thing that greatly amuses the senior is fewer Americans working than at any time in the past thirty years and 23 million Americans unemployed, under employed and given up looking for work.
- In between his constant silly grins, inapprorpriate and discourteous laughs, ridiculous mugging for attention, impolite and rude interruptions while the younger Irishman is speaking, the senior citizen occasionally delivers a bombastic barrage of BS about how wonderful things are and how stupid anyone would be to try to change the status quo and deal with the alleged problems faced by the country. Like his role model Herb Tarlick, the older man's comments are shallow, obtuse, misleading and vague and designed to appeal to morons.
- Meanwhile, the younger man keeps his cool and his civility, speaks in depth and with specifics and a coherent approach to the things that matter and need doing and demonstrates the patience of Job as the older chap exhibits the emotional maturity and intellectual depth of a particularly obnoxious and addled adolescent.
- So who do you think the woman at the table wound up siding with at the end of 90 minutes of conversation?
- The old Democrat, stupid, this was a bar inside The Beltway and the woman was a member of the Washington media.
