Monday, March 26, 2007

All Hail the Oligarchy - or - White House Experience Uber Alles?

I came to a simple realization recently. For my entire voting-age life only 2 families have ruled this country. Extend that through a hypothetical two-term Hillary presidency, and that will be an aggregate 28 year reign.

No need for that to be the end either. In 2016 Jeb Bush, two-term-due-to-term-limits Governor of Florida and member of the neoconservative think tank Project for the New American Century (the guys who thought in 1998 that invading Iraq would be a super-duper thing to do), will be a hale and hearty 63 years old. He could serve through 2024 and at 71 he would still be younger than Reagan.

Also in 2016, Chelsea Clinton will be 36, her first year of Presidential eligibility. A Disney movie called "Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century" makes reference to "President Chelsea Clinton" (found it on Wikipedia, so it's gotta be true). The movie does take place in 2049, the year that a new oath of office will be taken in January, so that puts the Chelsea ascendancy as early as 2040. Gosh, that's a 3 term gap, how will we get by without anyone with White House experience.

Bush twins!!

- funny side note from Chelsea Clinton's Wikipedia entry: As of 2005, Chelsea Clinton lives in the mid-Manhattan west side neighborhood of Chelsea. The neighborhood north of it is called Clinton. The two Midtown West neighborhoods are often lumped together as "Chelsea Clinton" and there was a local weekly newspaper "Chelsea Clinton News" before she became the famous first daughter.

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