Then There Were Two

Isn't it remarkable that suddenly instead of being Yet-Another-Old-White-Guy being a prerequisite for running for president, it's now a liability! Here in the waning days of the Republic, it seems the electorate wants to give some new people a chance. Good idea, seeing as how in some two hundred and twenty one years, every President has been J-A-O-W-G. And for the last several administrations, they haven't really performed very well, now, have they? Ignoring the fact that a lot of misguided , historically uninformed luddites think Ronald Wilson Reagan was a good president; we really haven't had a keeper since F.D.R. Ronnie Reagan, as we like to call him, would have been a great president - in the nineteenth century! But times change, and the sand shifts, and even the writing of the...

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Sen. Clinton was trying to run as J-A-O-W-G, and not doing very well, until she rediscovered she was a woman. Doing much better now. I still think the neo-crazies who'd rather pull down the temple than let a Clinton be in charge would make her presidency pretty awful. Better to destroy the government than allow a Clinton to look good.
Barack Obama, on the other hand, is somewhat protected: if anyone rants against him too rabidly, they'll just get tagged as racist. I savor that! He's also smart and well spoken. Good choice - unless he really does believe in trying to govern from the nice side of town.
I would have liked John Edwards. In 2004 and again this year, he actually took positions on issues, and showed he'd studied and thought about them. He's smart and studious. However, in these backward-to times, he'd have to be not J-A-O-W-G. Either that, or he'd have to be a republican; they're all J-A-O-W-G's.
The Poet Of The Protest Movement; Bob Dylan, got it right - The Times They Are a'Changin. Just a little slower than we thought back then.