A God in Ruins [antikvár]

CHAPTER 1 TROUBLESOME MESA, COLORADO AUTUMN, 2008 A Catholic orphan of sixty years is not apt to forget the day he first learned that he was bom Jewish. It would not have been that bombastic an event, except that I am mnning for the presidency of the United States. The 2008 election is less than a week away. Earher in the day, my in-close staff looked at one another around the conference table. We digested the numbers. Not only were we going to win, there was no way we were going to lose. Thank God, none of the staff prematurely uttered the words "Mr. President." This moming was ten thousand years ago. I'm Quinn Patrick O'Connell, governor of Colorado and the Democratic candidate for president. The voters know I was adopted through the Cathohc bureaucracy by the ranchers Dan and Siobhan O'Connell. My dad and I were Irish enough, at each others throats. Thanks to my mom, we all had peace and a large measure of love before he was set down in his grave. All things being equal, it appeared that 1 would be the second Roman Catholic president in American history Unknown to me until earlier this day, I would be the first Jewish president as well.