(about elections) Instead of talking about issues, everybody was trying to prove how "down-home" they were. "I'm just like you" was the sub-text of every speech.
Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? "I'm not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I'm just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I'd like to cut your chest open." The crowd cheers.
That might just be the funniest excerpt from the book. Or not. I still have exactly 57 pages to go. This book's a gem on gloomy days.
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