By PLS
At last a woman president! Conservative ideologues are planning to hit the comic books shelves with a dystopia set in 2021 America. The President will be Chelsea Clinton, evidently.
I haven’t the slightest notion of Chelsea’s political ideas, but her personal life in college seems to have been considerably more circumspect than that of the Bush girl children.
Chelsea has no arrest record for repeated misuse of alchohol or illegal narcotics. She seemed more interested in studies than rowdy parties. The same is true of Amy, Carter’s daughter.
Republicans are constantly railing about Democrats’ lack of family values. But Democratic Presidents seem to do a much better job at raising their children.
On the basis of the record, then, better Chelsea or Amy as president than either of the Bush Terrible Twins.
And could anyone feel safe if the protectors of the social and political order were the likes of G. Gordon Liddy and Oliver North? Both are convicted felons. Their commitment to democratic values is highly suspect. Those slippery creatures are the heroes who will rescue us from the envisioned Chelsea regime.
Heaven help us!
But then the current crop of Republicans have the illusion that Heaven is always helping them, so maybe we’ll have to depend on ourselves.
Come to think of it, the proposed heavily unhumorous, cel-by-cel Democrat bashing is beginning to seem like a tremendous campaign boost for whoever becomes the Democrat candidate for president in 2008. Are the originators Democrats in disguise?
There's talk that the concept is an exercise in ambiguity designed to appeal to both sides of the political fence. Nothing I've read so far suggests that the originators have enough imagination to deal creatively and intelligently with the present much less the world as it may be in 2021 or even 2008.
But they are creating lots of buzz.