I often wished our high school was large enough to have sustained a debating team. There was little for us frustrated teenage girls to do way back then. Title 9 hadn't come to fruition so sports were limited to intramurals and then, unless you were lucky enough to be a roving forward, you couldn't cross the center line....I'm not kidding kiddos...if you think that's not pretty, you should have seen our gym suits:-0 ( a story for another day). We could sing in the chorus, be a member of band, or even be a Future Homemaker of America (the original FHA.) I could carry a tune, I played the clarinet until the reed got caught in my braces and my Home-Ec teacher ,Mrs. O'Connell, made me turn the skirt I was making into a pillow! But, if there had been a debating team, I'd have signed on the dotted line. My family (then and now) would attest to the fact that I could argue about almost anything. Today, they call it bitching but I know I would have been a damn fine debater.
I did watch just a little snippet or two from last night's presidential debate. I saw some excerpts this morning and I took in the 4 minutes of closing statements. My conclusions are: they both looked relatively handsome in their dark suits and respective red/blue ties, they both had some facts, some substance and some ideas and they both have lovely families. However; Mr. Romney should probably work a bit harder toward becoming a roving forward and Mr. Obama should pack it in and turn his skirt into a pillow.
It worked for me!
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