2008-03-07
Help End the Tyranny of the Two Dynasties!!!
It started with this fellow back in 1980, surprisingly securing the Vice Presidential nod from Ronald Reagen even though he was not a standard politician. He was the bloody CIA Director. Let's see... that was 28 years ago. Let's see how many new people get a shot at power after this.First months in office, he gets in a confrontation with China because their plane buzzes one of our spy planes. Unfortunately, they now have the missile technology to shoot down our planes and space satellites (see above on Clinton), so there is little to be done against them. They keep the plane long enough to steal some of our spy technology too. D'oh!
Seems like it could not get any worse, but of course, I've learned my lesson -- it surely can! However, I can't really imagine how someone who scrapes her way to victory by bludgeoning every moral, ethic, and rule of math in her path -- "I'm a fighter!" -- can possibly redeem the fact that her husband is only the second President in history to be impeached. (Granted: it was an abuse of power to impeach him, but he was dumb enough to lie about something as mundane as having sex. I mean, he was already in his second term; so he could have just fessed up and not worried about reelection.) In my mind Hillary has already made the Clintons look worse; I guess, actually, Bill has too with his temper flaring on the campaign trail. I really can't fathom that Hillary can win a national election, but let us just presume that she does. (After all, she and Bill seem like they are going to steal the Democratic nomination; so a national election is not a stretch.)
Here is my prediction that no one will remember in eight years, but I will at least have it on record:
If Hillary wins the election this year, Jeb Bush will run in 2016. If she loses, Jeb will still probably run in 2016, but there is the off chance that McCain may die in office or not seek reelection (like LBJ, quit four years into a 100 year war), in which case Jeb could run in four years. Regardless, if Hillary wins we will have a Bush or Clinton in the White House (okay, so George Sr. was at Mount Vernon for some of it, but let's face it Reagan was losing his marbles while in office, so George was calling some of the shots)... so we will have two families in charge of the country for at least 32 years in a row (probably 36 if Hillary wins as an incumbent).
So let me get this straight... some Democrats are scared to elect someone without experience. Sure, sure they. It makes sense; two families have been hogging the Big House, man! What I can't figure out is this: if you keep electing two families to power, over and over, do you have a democracy? Or is it a circus? How is it really different from Russia's hand picked successions? I mean, Hillary has lost, but she is going to steal the nomination anyway, because she is handpicked by powerful DNC people.
Well, it's a theory. Totally off the cuff and crazy. I'm partially just putting this out there hoping I am completely wrong, but I fear I won't be.
One final thing:
This is kind of creepy too, but what are they putting in the water over there at Yale? Every one of the people above (although, I'm not sure about Jeb Bush) is a graduate of Yale University. Both Clintons, both Bushes -- Yale graduates. At least Obama is Harvard (maybe that's what they mean by inexperience... he hasn't gone to Yale like every good President should). I mean come on, even Kerry went to Yale!!! What is this crap?!
