Happy Easter In Pennsylvania

 Friday, April 22, 2022

My Dear America:

Easter Sunday has always been one of my favorite holidays.  

This year was no exception.

I got up early enough to take a shower and get ready to hit the road to Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia, where my wife and I were invited to visit two of our daughters, along with our youngest Granddaughter and my Temple University Sophomore student older Granddaughter.  Also in attendance at our Easter Dinner was My Son In Law, who cooked a fabulous meal and my future Son In Law who is also a Great Cook.

My Two Philly Area Daughters have been smart enough to recognize that although they have many other fine talents and interests, cooking has never been something that they were very much interested in.  So in their search for soul mates they have chosen wisely.

Both their Guys are Great Cooks.

The weather was cool but sunny on the way down and when we left to come back home we were on the road early enough to catch the last rays of a Beautiful Red  Easter Sundown.

It had been a Great Easter Day for us, we realized.

Early in the morning before we hit the road to Bryn Mawr, I had gotten a chance to watch a program on one of the Philly Stations about the upcoming Primary Elections in Pennsylvania.

Clearly the Republican Primary already had been and was going to continue to be a Shit Show (My Term, not that of the Philly Newsman)  

Donald Trump had just endorsed Mehmet Oz (Doctor Oz, to most of us) and all of the other Trump Ass kissing Senate Candidates in the Primary were pissed off and calling OZ a RINO (A Republican In Name Only)

OZ was not only a RINO but was also a Carpetbagger, who everyone knew lived in New Jersey and had not even had the decency to actually move to Pennsylvania to qualify to run for the Senate in our state. Doctor Oz's rather disgusting efforts to kiss up to Trump had worked.  He had received the much desired endorsement from the Monster From Mara Lago.

Trump had not endorsed anyone for Governor yet but Bill McSwain, who had worked for Trump as a U.S. Attorney in Pennsylvania had received an Unendorsement from Trump because McSwain had apparently had the good sense to tell the truth about Trump's "Big Lie" that he had won the 2020 Election "By A Landslide."  McSwain had angered Trump because he had refused to spend money and time investigating the Voter Fraud that Never Was in Pennsylvania.

McSwain had called Trump's "Big Lie" a Lie and Trump didn't like it one bit.  Trump made it known to Pennsylvania Republicans that he would "NEVER, NEVER, NEVER' Support McSwain.

So far Democrats seemed to be faring better than Republicans in Pennsylvania.  At least Two Were.  

Those two were John Fetterman who was running for Senate 

and

Josh Shapiro who was running for Governor.

Fetterman and Shapiro seemed to be miles ahead of any other Democratic Candidates in their respective Primary Races.  

United States Congressman, Connor Lamb, had been moving up in the Senate race but his Campaign's blatant attempt in their TV Ads to tarnish Fetterman as a "Socialist" seemed to have backfired according to the talking heads on Philly's ABC Station. Although Republicans seemed to be Okay with ripping their opponents apart shark attack style Democrats did not care for Connor Lamb's unfairly trashing Fetterman and Fetterman, to his credit, did not trash talk Connor Lamb or any other Democratic Candidate. That appeared to be a wise move on Fetterman's part.

Although I was very pleased with how Easter had gone, so far, I was surprised and pleased to find out later in the evening that the Showtime TV Network was presenting the first episode of a Television Series that my wife and I had been looking forward to watching.

"The First Lady" was so outstanding that we watched it three times, back to back.

It was a First Class Production starring three well known Actresses playing three well known First Ladies.  

Eleanor Roosevelt was portrayed by Gillian Anderson

Betty Ford was portrayed by Michelle Pfeiffer

And 

Michelle Obama was Portrayed by Viola Davis

The constant switching from one time period to another was a bit annoying at first but I have to admit that the Producers and Director made what could have been distracting and hard to follow into plot lines that were a little hard to follow but in the end made sense. 

Although Keifer Sutherland does not sound like the best choice to portray Franklin Roosevelt, I have to admit that he did an incredible job playing Roosevelt.

Aaron Eckhart again does not at first seem to be the right guy to play Gerald Ford but like his castmate, Keifer Sutherland, he pulled it off with style and authenticity.

The gentleman who played Barack Obama was someone who was unknown to me and just as Sutherland and Eckhart didn't quite look the part this guy didn't look so much like Barack but his speech pattern stunningly was exactly like Obama's.  

The Actresses portraying the First Ladies played their respective First Ladies with skill and obvious empathy for their particular First Ladies.  They did an Awesome job.

Watching "The First Lady" was the perfect way to end a very special Easter Day.

I can't wait to see the next episode this coming Sunday.

If you follow Politics I can't see how you will be disappointed by "The First Lady"

Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher