Don't Get Too Excited

[poliphilo]

In order to have a run at the Presidency of the USA you'll have had to eat a lot of crow and tread on a lot of fingers. Obama, Clinton, Romney, McCain- these are not nice people. 

And all of them- long since- will have ceased to have much to do with people like us- that is to say people without power or the hunger for power. The people they mostly consort with are those they can do deals with, those who can give them money or deliver support.

That's the nature of politics.

Whoever gets in they'll be beholden to the same baronial powers, in hock to the same military-industrial complex. It'll be nice to have a change of face at the top- and if that face turns out to be black or female it'll be a cheering indication of how social attitudes are changing- but that's all it'll be.

Comments

[internet-sampo.livejournal.com]

I agree.

Recently I said, who cares if it's a feminine soul or a african-american soul who gets elected when either one had to sell their soul to get this far?

On a more snarkier bent:
Last night as my wife and I walked to the polls we passed a Hillary campaigner and I addressed my wife: "So you're gonna' vote for Hillary and I'm voting for Obama?"

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It would be nice to be able to put cynicism aside...

At least, whoever gets elected it won't be Dubya. I think it's a brilliant that your system prohibits a president from serving more than two terms.

[solar-diablo.livejournal.com]

Those slave-owning Founding Fathers weren't complete idiots, I tell you.