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The Edible Weiner: Too Much To Swallow?

By Mark Esposito, Weekend Contributor

Disgraced Ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner is giving back  in a big way — or so he claims.  Fresh off a recent loss in New York City’s municipal elections, Weiner held the lead among Democratic mayoral  hopefuls until  disturbing texts with a decidedly lewd overtone were released by a 22-year-old woman he met online. Other women came forward to sink the Weiner warship but Weiner vowed to remain in politics and be active in the community despite another public humiliation for him and his wife, Huma Abedin, a former Hillary Clinton aide.

And alas, now he’s got an idea to rehabilitate his reputation and Rockaway, Queens, a neighborhood that was devastated by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Beset by rebuilding delays and high unemployment, Weiner proposes a new restaurant with a social conscience in the still reeling community. The Rockaway Restoration Kitchen is months away from it’s first fryer drop but Weiner plans to open the business and employ persons with substance abuse and criminal issues. He also wants to help the diet of the neighborhood, he claims. Rockaway, says Weiner,  is a “food desert” dominated by fast food chains and pizzerias.  “We want to do something sustainable for the community, while also providing healthy, local food options for the Rockaway population.”

Weiner plans a thirteen week training period that will provide life skills as well as restaurant skills. He’s hoping to make The Rockaway Restoration Kitchen  a launch pad for at-risk folks who can obtain other similar jobs once they complete the training program. One mistake shouldn’t be cause for unmitigated disaster Weiner reasons, and he should know.

Pipe dream? Maybe. A PR tour de force with another run at political  office being Objective No. 1? Almost surely. A recipe for success? A true quest for forgiveness from the women in his life?

Well, as any restaurant owner can tell you, the proof is in the pudding.

What do you think:

Source: CNN

~Mark Esposito, Weekend Contributor

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199 thoughts on “The Edible Weiner: Too Much To Swallow?”

  2. I counsel the weeny meister to follow the practices of those who frequent old book stores.

    Oops … he already is …. stay stubborn like the pudding senators:

  3. “Pipe dream? Maybe. A PR tour de force with another run at political office being Objective No. 1? Almost surely. A recipe for success? A true quest for forgiveness from the women in his life?

    Well, as any restaurant owner can tell you, the proof is in the pudding.” – Mark E

    It has been done before.

    Look at how much Oil-Qaeda has convinced people that what will kill us all is good for us.

    The techniques have been known for a long time (A Structure RE: Corruption of Memes – 3).

  4. This has to be the most enlightening thread in a long time. I thought we all, to varying degrees, looked upon the funny and imaginative ditties by Squeeky as a welcomed addition to the dialogue here. MikeA was gracious in helping her edit one last week. Those 7 Deadly Sins.

    1. Dredd – your attempts at humor are interesting, just like a contagious disease is interesting. Just about everybody knows Al Sharpton is a racist and a race baiter, some people just do not want to admit it. Are you part of that group?

  6. Elaine – you forgot to mention the Max Baucus belongs to those War on Women Democrats.

  7. Dredd – symbolic racism does not exist. On the other hand, Al Sharpton is both a racist and a race baiter.

  8. Unfortunately, despite his impressive political capabilities, he has become a public joke who running on inertia from his high placed political career.
    At this point everything he does will be seen with humor, mockery and derision.
    I don’t know if I have much advice for him at this point, but to lay low for couple years and hope the public forgets about his embarrassing aspects. Maybe then he can try to rekindle his career, slowly and altruistically.

  9. Elaine – Max Baucus of the slap-and-tickle caucus is now US Ambassador to China. It appears you can make a comeback.

  10. Here is a clerihew that I wrote about Max Baucus after the story broke that he was having an affair with a staffer named Melodee Hanes when he nominated her for a position as a US Attorney. I posted it on the Turley blog last year. I guess some people would consider the following light verse a “serious poem.” Go figure!

    Senator Max Baucus
    Of the “slap and tickle” caucus
    Considered Melodee Hanes
    To be one of his Capitol gains.

    http://jonathanturley.org/2013/04/25/baucus-to-leave-office-and-a-troubling-ethical-legacy/#comment-549046

  11. Charlton,

    How about a little light verse from Ogden Nash this Sunday morning?

    The Parent

    Children aren’t happy with nothing to ignore,
    And that’s what parents were created for.

    And one of Nash’s best-known verses Reflections on Ice-Breaking:

    Candy
    Is dandy
    But liquor
    Is quicker.

  12. Andy

    ME: Can you think of other political figures you need to be rehabilitated about?
    ——————————
    YOU: Yep. Rev. Al Sharpton. He’s on role with “cop choke hold” incidents in NYC.
    ===============================
    The correct answer is: The Rehabilitation of High Priest Bush II

    Nice try though.

  15. Nick Spinelli

    Wow! Lot’s of exposed nerves this morning …
    ========================
    The nerve meister …

  16. Haha, Elaine! Poetry in the morning watching the sailboats on the lake and coffee, couldn’t be better.

  19. Andy

    ME: Can you think of other political figures you need to be rehabilitated about?
    ——————————
    YOU: Yep. Rev. Al Sharpton. He’s on role with “cop choke hold” incidents in NYC.
    —————————–
    ME: He is not a political figure (Symbolic Racism: A Look At The Science – 3).

    YOU:Could you imagine Anthony Weiner hooking up with Chef Gordon Ramsay?

    Shock and Awe. Ramsay Explodes. Gordon would make a great campaign manger or even an elected law maker. Screw Weiner.
    ===============================
    It is Chef Ramsay, not Chief Ramsay … unless you have a cultural amygdala problem with Native Americans too.

    As part of the War on Whites perhaps?

    Those bastids want to get rid of obesity just as we made first place:

    Top 10 Most Obese Countries:

    1. United States
    2. China
    3. India
    4. Russia
    5. Brazil
    6. Mexico
    7. Egypt
    8. Germany
    9. Pakistan
    10. Indonesia

  20. Wow! Lot’s of exposed nerves this morning. “Better out than in” is what my wise mom would always say. Elaine, you are the Poet Laureate of the Turley blog. The Queen of Poetry. The High Priestess of all which is verse on the Turley Blog. Basta?

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