Andy Kaufman Quotes
If I was going to be a little boy about it, I'd go into hiding for one or two years. But if I was going to be a man about it, it'd be 20 or 30 years.
Zmuda, Bob. Andy Kaufman Revealed!: Best Friend Tells All. Little, Brown and Company, 1999.
He disappeared from the Governor's Mansion and no one could find him for a few days while he, a married man, had gone off with his Argentinian mistress. See {29256}. He refused to resign thereafter.
When politicians make bad decisions or choose bad alternatives, there is usually a price which involves use of tax money and sometimes the sacrifice of life itself. In the case to which McCain was referring, the George W. Bush Administration had gone to war against Iraq for reasons that turned out not to be true, and then after a military victory with few casualties, botched the occupation of the country and a vicious insurgency developed bogging down the nation in its longest war in history. The major burden fell on the armed forces and their families while all Americans endured the highest financial deficits in the nation’s history.
Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman was an American comedian, performance artist and wrestler. While often called a comedian, Kaufman preferred to describe himself instead as a "song and dance man". He has sometimes been called an "anti-comedian". He disdained telling jokes and engaging in comedy as it was traditionally understood, once saying in a rare introspective interview, "I am not a comic, I have never told a joke. ... The comedian's promise is that he will go out there and make you laugh with him... My only promise is that I will try to entertain you as best I can."
