That's our man!" We exiles will have to sustain ourselves with that memory for at least four years of chronic embarrassment.
Two years after the embarrassment of making erroneous projections in the 2000 presidential election, the major television news organizations are taking extra measures to avoid a recurrence.
Forty years of struggle, drift, public failure and private embarrassment were simply set aside and removed from scrutiny on account of having occurred before Bush was born again.
For the Greek state – in barely disguised meltdown after six years of economic freefall – the minors are an embarrassment but also a glitch.
After that came three years of my father completing theological college, and then, the many years of embarrassment as he arrived to do our school assemblies (sometimes in a cassock, which led to predictable comments).
Remember those good old days, all eight years of them, when the American president was a chronic national embarrassment?
Sixty years of sacrifice.
Sixty years of certainty.
