I was making my way down a dark country road this evening, trying to find a market and hoping I’d be able to find my way back, when I heard Donna Brazile on the radio talking about her new book, Cooking with Grease.
It was great stuff and made me want to go out and buy it.
The best part was her description of sitting in on Al Gore’s testy non-concession phone call with then-Governor Bush on election night 2000. When Gore tells Bush that things are too close in Florida, that there’s going to be a recount, Bush comes back with something like “But my brother says …”
(Doesn’t this jerk know our family owns that state? Where’s Karl?)
Even in the interview you could feel her pride and fight swell up as she recounted how Gore got his back up in the face of Bush’s swagger and entitlement. In any case, the rough outlines of the story have been told before. But so much about these two men is contained that one interaction. I’m eager to read what else Brazile has to say about that, the rest of the recount drama, and her recollections of other defining political moments.
