Back in the glory days when Bill Clinton was President and making one mistake after another, many political cartoons wrote jokes about how Hillary should be running for President and Bill should be out back running the barbecue. So here we are a few years down the road and Hillary if the Heir Apparent, only this Barack fellow keeps stealing all her votes. Oh, well, maybe next time.
I’m in Texas and we have just started having the political ads running on TV here. I haven’t seen anything remotely interesting in the content of the ads. Hi, I’m So-and-So and I’m going to save the country if you make me your next President. Yawn. But I have noticed something that I do think is funny. These are just straight talking-heads ads. Hillary and Barack looking into the camera and trying to be very, very sincere about what they are reading. These ads have no cuts, no breakaways to images of Katrina victims or the War in Iraq, no little counter in the corner telling us how many trillions of dollars into debt Little George has gotten us. Just the candidates sitting there, staring into the camera. At the end of these ads, where the candidates are talking, they say-I approve this ad.
Ok, I am not a big politico. I am a firm believer in the Yes, Minister form of Government-it doesn’t matter who the President is, all that matters is what the permanent residences of Power tell the President to do. All those people that work in Washington but don’t have bother with silly crap like getting elected to office.
Why do Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have to tell me they approve of a message that came straight out of their own mouths? Are we supposed to believe that they are being forced to make these messages against their wills if we don’t hear that little and I approve this message tag? Is this like the law that says a truck has to have the word FISH in 18 inch letters on the back if they are hauling fish? And what is the point of that, exactly, come to think of it? Who cares if a truck is full of fish and not chicken, or beef?
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are making history, but like most Superbowls, it would be a lot more interesting if the two of them could both run for President. It is being argued here and there that John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama are all basically the same candidate. Well, Duh. They are all the same. Even if there was a miracle at the polls and the internet darling Ron Paul became the next President, nothing would change. Because nothing can fundamentally be changed.
I’m a disgruntled American, and I approve this message.
