Tommy Carcetti as Bobby Kennedy

In the last show of the Third Season of "The Wire" Baltimore City Councilman, Tommy Carcetti, delivers a speech and in its content and in his cadence, earnest conviction and courage 


         

           one can hear an echo of Bobby Kennedy




Did you see the debate between Trump and Biden? Neither of them could hold a candle to the fictional Carcetti or the real Bobby Kennedy.


American politicians have degenerated to the point where a weather balloon would have to be attached to each one of them to get them to rise to the level of a stagnant pond frog.