To Andrew Sullivan and now to Jeff Taylor at Reason--stationary targets, I know, but bear with me--I shall attempt to explicate something. I'll quote Taylor:
Just more of Hillary Rodham Clinton saying and doing anything for power.Taylor, you see, thinks that Hillary getting a little teary-eyed was a nefarious plot of some sort that happily backfired. Dude. First of all: Get. A. Fucking. Life.
Anyway, the explication. This notion that Hillary Clinton, somehow uniquely among aspirants to high office and in particular the presidency, seeks Power is moronic. And by moronic, I mean retarded. And by retarded, I mean so dumb that anyone who holds this view may as well give over his job and humanity and settle for a more appropriate métier, like sitting in a cage while cosmetics chemists put shit in his eyes. Of course Hillary Clinton wants power and will go to extraordinary lengths to acquire it. So too Barack Obama, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, McCain, Huckabee, and the rest of that gaggle of psychopaths. One does not seek the office of the President of the United States, which I remind you is singularly the most powerful office in the entire history of the human species upon this planet, without first possessing an unhealthy attraction to power. Little Dennis Kucinich and old Ron Paul want power too; they simply propose that they will effectuate their power in a different manner.
I mean, hell, look at Romney. Here is a man who has effectively recreated himself as an entirely different person, who has recanted--in full public view!--virtually every one of his previously stated legal and moral and ethical and economic beliefs in order to make himself palatable to the percentage of the population that will determine whether or not he can gain his party's nomination, upon which occurence he will with great alacrity repudiate his recantations in order to make himself palatable . . . you can see where this goes.
They'll all do or say anything. This ain't pick-up, baby. This is the pros. These people are jockeying for their turn at the tiller of the American Empire.
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Amen brother. Sullivan is such a douche.
And a belated thanks for the onion soup recipe. Yummy.
An excellent dose of perspective.
In my middle school days*, I read a bunch of epic fantasy, and one of the things that stuck with me was an author who posited an idyllic island kingdom. The people, being peaceful farmers and herders, had no desire to actually govern the country, and so every year they would select a king by drawing lots. Whoever was selected bitched and moaned about having to leave his field/herd for a year, but put up with it for the greater good (and because his name was now out of the drawing for any future kingships). After the year-long term was up, lots were drawn again, and the king would happily return to the fields.
Of course, they didn't have a military with lots of shiny toys to play with, but honestly, anyone willing to be a national politician in this day and age, given the insane media attention, is a seriously disturbed individual willing to cast aside all the true joys of life in order to play with other people's money and try desperately to fill that empty void inside themselves.
*and currently
It was a Republican, wasn't it, who helpfully explained that "Power is the greatest aphrodisiac" ?? These people are simply afraid of what would happen if Hillary got her hands on a really reliable aphrodisiac. I mean, after all, one minor Clinton sexual escapade nearly destroyed the greatest economic and military empire in history; a second one might crack this planet open like an eggshell.
so you think Romney doesn't really hunt varmints then?
Not sure about Kucinich.
He seems genuinely scared of becoming a prez. With his platform, he would have life-expectancy of a fruit fly once in office.
Outstanding! IOZ bats another one out of the park.
1. All politicians are power hungry.
2. Obama is a politician.
3. Obama is therefore power hungry.
That explains why Ioz continues to write rant after rant attacking Obama while praising other politicians with faint damns.
And it's not because Ioz hates uppity blacks, specifically, and doesn't really want to share the plantation. Nope.
Right isys. Obama didn't really want to become president. He was forced into it by his greater love of humanity, dragged kicking and screaming away from his Senate seat, the fingernail marks on that wooden desk still visible as a stark reminder of what might have been.
Oh, if he could only be a Cincinnatus and return to the plow! But...such are the burdens of service to the greater good!
mom,
well, i suppose it's true that obama is a larger man than frodo.
"Praise with faint damns" is an even dumber expression than the original, alas. And the original is pretty dumb.
Cincinnatus. Aie! Now that is funny. But who is Barack's Hamilton?
Ahh, come on, the others just think it would be cool to have an oval room in the house. Some of them are just killing time until it's time to start collecting Social Security. And then I hear the catering's pretty good.
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