The Long View.(political humor)(Brief Article)

 
poppotus: Hey! Is that you? 
albertgore: I'm sorry. Do I know you? 
poppotus: Al, it's me! It's Bill. 
albertgore: Bill? Bill Clinton? 
poppotus: Yeah! This Instant Messaging thing is cool! 
albertgore: I didn't even know you had a computer. 
poppotus: I didn't until last week. Barry Diller got it for me. Barbra 
Streisand got the T-1 line put into the houses. Steve Rattner bought the big 
dealy with the fast thing- 
albertgore: The server? 
poppotus: Yeah! The server. 
albertgore: You've got your own server. Perfect. That's just . . . perfect. 
poppotus: Yeah, well, when I saw the guys bringing it up the driveway I was 
kind of disappointed. I mean, when somebody says they're getting you a 
"server" to keep you "connected" at a "fast speed," well, my mind kind of 
pictured something entirely different. But this is pretty nice. 
albertgore: Please take me off your buddy list. 
poppotus: C'mon, bud. C'mon. 
albertgore: I'm serious. If you won't, I'll get AOL to block your IM's. I am 
not kidding. 
poppotus: Oh, that reminds me of the coolest thing Steve Case bought me. 
It's a little deal you clip on your belt and you can send messages back and 
forth all over the place. 
albertgore: A Blackberry? 
poppotus: Yeah! That's it. So I've been zapping messages back and forth to 
Whoopi Goldberg and those guys all week. So cool. 
albertgore: You know, not that it matters, not that you ever LISTENED to me, 
but I showed you my Blackberry several times, and tried to get you 
interested in it, tried to get you to use one, tried to get you to use the 
computer, tried to get you to use a Palm Pilot- 
poppotus: Got one! Nice gift from Denise Rich. 
albertgore: Please take me off your buddy list. 
poppotus: What's the big deal? 
albertgore: The big deal? The BIG DEAL? Bill, you somehow managed to leave 
the White House in a brand new kind of disgrace. It wasn't enough that you 
were impeached. It wasn't enough that- 
poppotus: Fine. Fine. You don't want to be friends, okay, we won't be 
friends. We'll just pretend we don't know each other when we run into each 
other in Washington or New York, at dinner parties or the video store or 
wherever. Well, not the video store, I guess. 
albertgore: Why not the video store? 
poppotus: Don't rent those things anymore. Got a plasma screen and a DVD 
player and a mini dish. Gift from Sumner Redstone. He's good people. I told 
him, I said, "Sumner, this is all a guy needs to relax. I only wish I had a 
soft leather recliner to complete the picture, hint hint." And can you guess 
what happened? 
albertgore: Let me guess. He sent you a leather recliner? 
poppotus: Two of 'em! 
albertgore: What a guy. One for you and one for Hillary. 
poppotus: Hillary? LOL! 
albertgore: LOL? 
poppotus: ...
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