Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, October 21, 2007 12:53:48 AM
"The time has come for us to have a deep conversation about donkeys and elephants and the future of America. Maybe having that conversation from the warthog rooting gallery is a pretty good place to start." - Newt Gingrich
Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World______________________________________
Warthogs, Detroit and the American Future by Newt Gingrich
I had an amazing thing happen to me at Walt Disney World on Wednesday. I became a warthog. It may have changed my life.
Courtesy of our two grandchildren (Maggie, age seven, and Robert just turned six last Sunday), we were attending the Lion King Celebration in the Animal Kingdom.
With my gray hair I seem to stand out in a lot of places, and when the entertainers began getting audience participation at the beginning of the show, I got picked to be one of the animals.
There were four animal groups -- the elephants, the lions, the giraffes and the warthogs.
Given my history as a lifelong Republican, you would have guessed that I would have been picked to represent the elephants.
However, by luck of our seating, we were assigned to the warthog rooting section.
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