Bush III: Bush Harder
Despite the fact that the Democratic Party has not settled on its nominee yet, the party has started launching attacks on John McCain (one more reason to dislike McCain is that my fingers still want to type "John McClane," which is irritating because I feel bad comparing the badass Die Hard hero to Bush III). Here the party lets McCain debate himself.
Speaking of the Iraq War (well, not really, but I needed a segue), slate.com published a bunch of essays last week by liberals who supported the war back in 2003 but have since changed their minds, which is pretty interesting, if only to make more consistent war opponents feel more smug.
On that same day, Slate published one of the stupidest possibilities I've read so far for resolving the Clinton-Obama stalemate: they share a ticket and then take turns serving as president. The 25th Amendment supposedly would allow one of them to serve as president for, say, three years, and then resign and thereby promote the other from vice president to president. The new president could then appoint the former president as vice president. And they could then take turns for up to sixteen years, as long as each president serves no more than eight years during that period. Riiiiiiiiiight. Some obvious thoughts: 1) Let's see, every presidential administration in the past century has worn out its welcome by the end of its second term (some of them by the end of their first); and 2) I doubt many Americans would look kindly on having sixteen years of Putin/Medvedev-like nepotism.
Speaking of the Iraq War (well, not really, but I needed a segue), slate.com published a bunch of essays last week by liberals who supported the war back in 2003 but have since changed their minds, which is pretty interesting, if only to make more consistent war opponents feel more smug.
On that same day, Slate published one of the stupidest possibilities I've read so far for resolving the Clinton-Obama stalemate: they share a ticket and then take turns serving as president. The 25th Amendment supposedly would allow one of them to serve as president for, say, three years, and then resign and thereby promote the other from vice president to president. The new president could then appoint the former president as vice president. And they could then take turns for up to sixteen years, as long as each president serves no more than eight years during that period. Riiiiiiiiiight. Some obvious thoughts: 1) Let's see, every presidential administration in the past century has worn out its welcome by the end of its second term (some of them by the end of their first); and 2) I doubt many Americans would look kindly on having sixteen years of Putin/Medvedev-like nepotism.