Undecided Voters
November 2, 2008
As the US presidential campaign reaches its final stages, David Sedaris in The New Yorker wonders whether they exist -
“I look at these people and can’t quite believe that they exist. Are they professional actors? I wonder. Or are they simply laymen who want a lot of attention?
To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?”
To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.
Taking into account that they elected Bush twice, it is not wholly implausible that Americans have a taste for shit and broken glass.
