Trump, the laziest president ever, calls Harris lazy; that takes nerve, and the usual racism

News report from the Associated Press, Oct. 23: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump unleashed a series of personal attacks at Vice President Kamala Harris, calling her “lazy” — a word long used to demean Black people in racist terms — and repeatedly questioning her intelligence and stamina.

GUEST COMMENTARY FROM BUSH HOG JAMES, from Arizona:

You can thank Meredith Willson for an education on the subject of billiards. According to Prof. Harold Hill (Willson’s voice in “The Music Man”), playing billiards (correctly, without cheating) fosters horse sense, judgment, maturity, a cool head and a keen eye. As for pool, that Devil’s tool, one can expect nothing good to come from it. Any boob can shove a ball in a pocket and the pursuit of it is no more than sloth — like golf. (I live on a golf course in the desert in Arizona — without having ever played anything on it. I just like grass and we don’t have much of that out here other than on golf courses).

And, like most everything else these days, that leads us to politics. The latest silliness (unsurprisingly) comes from a former President of the United States who asserts that his current opponent, the current Vice President of the United States, is “lazy.” Hooah! (or Oorah, depending on your branch of service.) For those of us without military affiliation: “Really?”

As Al Smith, a presidential hopeful from the last century, said: “Let’s look at the record.”

At some station-stop on the Internet, someone with even less to do than I keeps tabs on how many times Trump has played golf. Whoever it is keeping track of the number of Trump rounds doesn’t track the actual scores of each round because (1) Trump keeps the score and (2) Trump is rumored to throw an opponent’s ball from the green into a sand trap when the opponent isn’t looking–or, if the opponent is Lindsey Graham, when Graham is pusillanimously watching Trump throw the ball into the sand.

Looking at the record, as promised, it appears that Trump played golf 75 to 100 times a year during his presidency. (It’s unclear whether that accounts for days in which he played 36 holes, which, given his rapacious character, is likely). That may seem to you as a lot of golf. It may not be so much to someone who is over 70, wealthy and couldn’t be bothered with the chore of running the country. Should Trump tragically win another election, more of the same can be expected.

Meanwhile, no one seems to have bothered (from what I see on the Internet, at least) to have determined whether Kamala even plays golf, much less how much. In any case, it seems that Trump likely has had a vastly greater level of association with the Devil’s tools than she has and I am guessing that he has become (or always was) a sloth and a boob. It’s clear that he has kept his nerve, however, because it takes a lot of nerve for him to call somebody else lazy.