hell ya! it's time for an elite presidency

Lord, thank you Thom Hartman [author].

Can people start shouting this from rooftops, please? I mean, come on. At what point, exactly, did we decide it best to have the guy/girl most drunk or most irrational in college be our leaders? When did the virtues of the WWE become the litmus test?

Huffington Post:
"America loves its elites -- we love our sports stars, our movie stars, our rock stars and even our political stars.

John Kennedy was an elite. He came from an elite family, had an elite education, and he had the calm demeanor and the good fashion of a man who knew he was part of the intellectual and political elite. Americans didn't just love him they lionized him calling his administration Camelot -- the story of an elite king in an elite time.

If George W Bush has taught us one lesson, it's that the god-awful consequences of having the guy you want to have beer with running the most complex, powerful, and massive institution in the world, the US Government, is a terrible mistake.

John McCain graduated from the Naval Academy in June 1958; he was fifth from the bottom, 894th out of 899. He has no training at law. Sarah Palin attended 5 schools before getting a degree from North Idaho College that qualified her to be a TV sportscaster. North Idaho College takes pride in its "open-door" admissions policy. She also has no training at law.

Most of our great presidents have been trained in law from John Adams and Thomas Jefferson to Lincoln to FDR and Clinton. Bush and Cheney have no legal training and we were told how great the MBA presidency would be.

It's been a disaster.

Barack Obama got his BA from Columbia University in New York and his JD from Harvard. While at Harvard he was president of the prestigious Harvard Law Review. He was a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago. Joe Biden similarly has a JD degree.

It's time for an Elite presidency. It's time for the best and the brightest to once again lead this nation."

more proof ...

that our current leader ["Shrub" and co.] is more fearless than ... well ... name it: deft, a constitutional scholar, an historian, conceptually aware of checks and balances ... and let's see ... let's not exclude "virtuous," "moral" and "dignified" ... just stick with the despicable descriptor(s) and you're on target ... like completely embarrassing, appalling, smug, corrupt and has shit-for-brains. See link below ... just one more in a line of this administration's five bazillion unprecedented, unconstitutional tactics that conjur my not-so-inner bitch. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! And for those who immediately dismiss anything that "left-wing rag," the NYTs, has to say, this article cites a report prepared by the Justice Department's own inspector general.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/washington/24cnd-justice.html

So, how is it possible that we EVER elected such a neo-monarchist-imperial-fascist-friggin'-fratboy-blockhead ... TWICE [sort-of]! America, could you not see what you were doing?! Were you all so blinded by puritanical indignation just cause Bill Clinton couldn't keep it in his pants? Get over the sex hang-up, people! Americans should be more indignant about Death, War, eight years of increased climate change [cause neo-cons denied it even existed, till this year ... a phenomena all relevant, peer-reviewed science screamed 10 years ago! None of the naysayers were peer-reviewed and only showed up on Fox-faux-news as part of their thinly-veiled, "fair and balanced," bullshit].

So, where was I ... oh, yes ... more of my tantrum:
... a war that will likely have a price tag closer to 3 TRILLION DOLLARS** [and the first war ever paid for by DEBT... to China of all places]. Consequently, China owns our asses ... in other words, our childrens' and our children's childrens' futures. And lest we think otherwise, this scenario is, in no small part, significantly contributing to the decline of the almighty Dollar.

For all you mini Karl Roves out there, hope you're happy. Well, of course you are. Shrub "believes" in the power of prayer. Of course! What an all-important qualification for becoming president!

Guess you can't even see the irony--that y'all handed the Prince of Darkness the keys to the kingdom ... or rather, handed them to his butthead of a frat brother!

All hail our frat-boy-in-chief.

**See The Three Trillion Dollar War by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist, and Kennedy School of Government professor, Linda J. Bilmes. But of course, in-line neo-cons have pledged their souls to the Devil ... I mean, to this administration. So they'll just do the same ol'-same ol' and cry, "wa-wa-wa ... more liberal ax-grinding, more liberal hate speech [standard battlecry when the Right can't come up with a reasonable rebuttal] --um ... we mean ... liberal hate numbers!"

Well, the truth ain't always easy to swallow, now is it, Darlin's?