Episode 1
We visit Sparrow as he announces his candidacy at his campaign headquarters, a spacious double-wide in Phonecia, NY. He tries out a number of his campaign ideas and gets overly excited.
Sparrow is a poet who has run for President the last 4 election cycles. In 1996 he ran as a revolutionary communist within the structure of the Republican Party and lived to write a book about it, Republican Like Me. A cross between Lenny Bruce and Stephen Wright, Sparrow doesnt really want you to vote for him but he likes having a reason to speak on your behalf.
As a country we need Sparrow. We certainly dont want him to run anything but we need him now, just as the 1850s needed Walt Whitman, to force us to look at our political system with a new perspective. Sparrow speaks truth to those not in power, and if enough people listen power might have to pay attention.