Mulch Ado About Nothing
February 1, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Roger Simon shares this great anecdote in his Politico column today:
Maureen Dowd did a famous article on likability on the front page of The New York Times in 1987, and afterwards I asked Dowd what gave her the idea.
“I had traveled with Dukakis really early, maybe his first campaign trip to Iowa,” she recalled, “and I asked him what I always ask people: ‘What do you do for fun?’
“And he said: ‘Black mulch.’
“And I said: ‘Black mulch?’
“And he said: ‘I like to put black mulch on my tomato plants.’
“And I thought to myself right then: This man will never be president.”
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