Monday, December 13, 2010

Softening up!

I used to thoroughly dislike the Republican Speaker-elect John Boehner. Yesterday, I watched him on '60 Minutes’ a news show on TV. I was surprised to see that he has a tendency to burst into tears whenever he talked about his accomplishment of becoming a speaker after starting as a janitor on a midnight shift in his college days. He just could not control it. As I am getting older, I also find myself ‘welling up’ even for minor things like a scene from a movie (goodbye scene from ‘Roman Holiday’), passages from a good speech (‘Yes, we can’), so on. I think I have now softened up my impression about Boehner. (Still, it is a shame that a person like he who has experienced the hardships of the poor, is so much against any government intervention!)