"dwight" > wrote in
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> "Michael Johnson" > wrote in message
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>> dwight wrote:
>>> "Michael Johnson" > wrote in message
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>>>> You have a point. It took the Democrats running the proverbial car
>>>> over a cliff with Jimmie Carter to pave the way for Reagan in 1980.
>>>> Carter makes George Bush look like Thomas Jefferson.
>>>
>>> Carter was brilliant. Bush can't form a sentence.
>>
>> Carter would have been brilliant if being president was like being an
>> engineer on a nuclear submarine. He was one of the worst Presidents
>> this country has ever had to endure. Thank God he only had one term.
>> Two terms of of his stupidity would have been more than this country
>> could bare.
>
> NU-CLE-AR. At least, he knew how to speak the language.
>
>>> I'm not quite sure how you meant this.
>>
>> The original intent was to indicate that letting liberals have enough
>> political rope will result in them hanging themselves. The one of
>> the most recent examples of this was Jimmie Carter followed by
>> Clinton in his first two years in office. I threw in the last
>> sentence as an embellishment.
>
> But the same could be said about the two Bush presidencies. "Give 'em
> enough rope..." The simple fact is that we've been getting the
> government we so obviously deserve. The Democrats have been
> ineffectual, the Republicans have been a disgrace.
>
> Just as with any mass marketing, we've ended up yet again with the
> candidates who have the broadest appeal. And the people we'd really
> LIKE to have as president wouldn't even consider running for the job.
>
> How many times have you cast a vote, not FOR someone, but against the
> other?
>
> The simple fact is, of course, that no one individual is ever going to
> measure up. No one party (and we've really only got two) is ever going
> to reflect 100% what we as individuals believe and hold dear. The
> system by design will always disappoint.
>
> We make the best choice possible from among a tiny pool of talent and
> we send them to Washington to do an impossible job, with half of the
> population already dead set against them. Along with a new president,
> we send in a Congress that, upon close inspection, seems to have been
> assembled through insanity. We elect dead people, outright crooks,
> frauds, cardboard, egomaniacs and crazies, and send them off to do the
> people's business.
>
> And THEN, after this huge set-up, comes the punchline - we, as a
> nation, have fallen into two gigantic camps, each loathing the other
> with a vitriol that is created wholly out of thin air. We've become a
> people that loves to draw lines in the sand - political, racial,
> religious, sexual - and throw stones at those on the other side.
> Because it's easier than thinking.
>
> If we can break all of humanity into two and only two groups -
> Republican/Democrat, black/white, Christian/Muslim, gay/straight,
> Ford/Chevy - it makes our lives and our hate so much easier. So we
> choose the candidate who is closest to our hate, not our hope. Three
> out of five, he's got my vote.
>
> Nixon wanted to steal an election. Ford doesn't really count. Carter
> fell victim to OPEC and runaway inflation. Reagan was hounded for
> Iran/Contra. Bush 41 forgot to keep his eye on the home ground.
> Clinton got a blow job. Bush 43 has screwed up in every which way
> imaginable. It gets worse and worse.
>
> Now you look at the current crop. Vote for McCain! Because he'd be a
> great leader? No, because he's not Hillary. Vote for Obama! Why,
> because he'd completely rewrite the rules in Washington? No, because
> he's not Hillary. Or McCain.
>
> I'm disgusted.
>
> Maybe it's time for dwight in 2012.
>
> dwight

How 'bout a benevolent dictatorship?