Thursday, January 31, 2008

Dynastic Politics

I've seen stuff recently from commentators along the lines of how concerned they are that Hillary Clinton is a continuation of dynastic politics, in that if she wins, the presidency will have been held by a member of two families for between 24 to 28 years.

Funny thing, I didn't recall anybody, other than liberals, worrying about this issue in 2000. I don't recall anybody on the Right talking about the fact that George W. Bush was nothing more than the eldest son of a failed president, a man who had done little in his life other than hold no-show jobs that were arranged for him by his father's friends and who, when he made a mess of things, got bailed out by them. His whole presidency has been defined by his efforts to prove that he is different from his father and the result has been that he has been the most monumental fuckup of a president in American history.

But now folks are worried about this?

I don't know about Nicholas Kristof. But anyone on the Right who is worrying about this issue, now, had better take large gulp of this beverage:

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