Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Big Bob, a Brazilian politician

Big Bob was, well, big. He could have been a sumo fighter, but he chose the politics.

He was also very charismatic. During his speeches he used to explain, on his way, what was the representative democracy.

He would say that a congressman should not have his own ideas. What does it mean? "A politician should be like a human body with several other little bodies inside of it." He would touch his belly and draw one or two laughs only. The people did not understand yet. “For example, my circulatory system are the taxi drivers taking other cells everywhere. My heart is our friends from the industries that produce power for the community. My brain represents the schools. He would also compare his respiratory system that cleaned the body to the roadsweepers. It could sound inappropriate associating them to the intestines.

In the end of his speech Big Bob received euphoric applauses.

In the steak house, Big Bob wouldn’t waste time on the salad bar. He was a fan of fat stakes and pork ribs. He had great difficulty to walk from his office to the elevator and from there to his car.

He was not intelligent either. His biggest intellectual triumph was guessing right who would be the next American Idol.

It couldn’t have been different, Big Bob died early. Nobody knew exactly what happened. His organs began failing one by one. From the time doctors told him about his problems to his death was only a couple of weeks.

The entire community cried. Nobody doubted that he was the greatest example of the Brazilian democracy.

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