2008
I’m getting kind of excited for the next presidential election: time for a change.
This image keeps coming to mind, over and over again, when I think about 2008.
Like the Clintons or not, see if this image doesn’t stick in your mind, too.
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on March 16th, 2006 at 6:48 pm
Don’t tell me you think she’s a viable presidential candidate!?!?!?
Despite my lean to the right, I sort of like Bill Clinton - or aspects of him anyways. Or maybe the *potential* he had. My overwhelming feeling about him is disappointment. He’s a natural leader. I hear him speak, and I want to believe and follow. I disagree with most of his politics, and I’m not sure he had his priorities correct - but I was willing to believe. He could have accomplished so much, but… just didn’t. And that’s sad.
A more moderate Bill who believed in concepts such as security, accountibility, and responsibility along with charity and service and humanity - he’d have my vote.
But Hilary? I dunno. In a very unlike-me statement (I hate anything smacking of quotas or tokenism), I think we need a woman president just to prove that we can have a woman president; but I just don’t see her fitting the role. A Clinton victory in ‘08, which seems to be marginal at best, would just galvanize the right so much that they’d defeat her, no matter the cost, next time around - and then it could be years before another one gets a chance. Where’s Liddy Dole when you need her?
The one thing I like about that picture is that the two of them look genuinely happy together, not the forced happiness (for politic’s sake, of course) they seemed to have post-Monica, or even earlier - before political ambition chewed them both up. I can’t help but wonder if both of them sometimes wish they were back in his flat in London, passing a roach around with Cream on the hi-fi. Back before he had to flirt up the intern to get a little somethin’ somethin.
on March 22nd, 2006 at 6:56 pm
That picture reminds me of your father and I way back when. Times were different then.
But I have to say, in response to Branden’s comment,(hi Branden),I don’t think political
ambition chewed them up at all. In fact, it’s politics that keeps them together. They have
the same goals, and in my opinion, that’s what makes a marriage work.
As for Hilary running for president, she has my full support. Read her book, Living History,
and you’ll see what a brilliant woman she is.