Serena Williams Is My Hero
There goes my hero, watch her as she goes.
What really endears a person to me is when they put their principles ahead of everything else, no matter what cost. That could be why I like Dick Cheney and George W. Bush so much. And Barry Bonds. And Charles Manson.
Serena Williams really showed me something this weekend when she forfeited the last point of her semifinals match in the U.S. Open - to prove a point. In case you missed it, at 15-30 of the second set, some nosy bitch who should have been minding her own business called a foot fault on Serena’s second serve, making the score 15-40 and making it match point against eventual winner Kim Clijsters.
After the foot fault was called, Serena walked up to that nosy neighbor and told her she should keep her damn nose out of Serena’s end-line or something negative would happen (I’m paraphrasing here). Well, wouldn’t you know it, that tattle-tale snitched on Serena to the umpire and then went back to her chair.
This is where Serena stole my heart: Instead of serving the ball, she asserted her authority over that line judge a second time – to make 100% perfectly clear that she got her message across, which was “Don’t ever open your mouth to me again, woman.” (Again, a paraphrase, despite being in quotes.)
Serena was docked a point for her actions (I wish the cops would only dock me a point when I do that), which ended up giving Clijsters the point she needed to win the match.
See, Obama could take a few cues from these people of principle, like Serena, like judge, jury and executioner Kanye West, like Dick Cheney. You wouldn’t see Dick Cheney being all wishy-washy with health care reform. He’d say, this is the public option, and if you don’t like it, you can suck on it.
Of course, you wouldn’t see Dick Cheney offer health care reform, even after he shot you in the face.
“Dick, Dick, you shot me in the face!”
“So.”
“Yeah, you’re right.”
“Walk it off.”
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