Klobuchar the Elder

Klobuchar Pere: “l’etoile c’etait moi”

For those of you who remember afternoon newspapers, you know that one of the best things about the Minneapolis Star was columnist Jim Klobuchar. When it came to homespun humor, he was Garrison Keillor before there was a Prairie Home Companion.

Characteristic, often, of his portraits of typical Minnesotans, was his outrage at how they’d been treated by government, circumstances, or just plain bad luck. He was the first thing I went to in the paper I actually liked.

He’s weighed in again, over at voxverax, (which means true voice in my favorite dead language). There’s nothing startling here. In fact, the Louis XIV reference showed up in a Helen Thomas column on Friday. It’s another Bush bash, but we love it when the old indignation raises its head. Let’s hope his daughter has inherited it enough to start taking some real stands on some critical issues. This “we can do better” pap we’re getting from her is not worthy of her father’s straight forward example.