While Britain

has slowly gotten away from having prime ministers whose jobs were nothing more than hereditary titles to today having PMs in office who are qualified and able, the United States is doing the opposite. We basically have two families running the show today, with Hillary Clinton running not because of her experience but because of who is her husband.

However, I go much further than Wheatcroft and say that supporters of Hillary aren't really supporting her--they are supporting the backdoor candidacy of her husband, who is term-limited by the Constitution and is using his wife as the ticket to get back in the White House legally.

I wish one of the Democratic candidates would actually have the nerve to go after her campaign head-on and stress the importance of having "new blood" in the White House, and ask Bill to just get on with his life, enjoy his retirement, and not try to relive his glory years by wanting to clean up the Bush mess.

Nobody has the nerve to walk into that landmine, not even Joe Biden.

Edit: I thought this post from Democratic Underground was funny and true:

I say NO to Bill & Hillary Peron

Edited on Fri Oct-05-07 08:38 AM by HamdenRice
We don't need an ex-president's wife being president in order to bring the ex-president or his cohort back to power. We are not Argentina. We don't need Juan and Isabel Peron.

It is getting so ridiculous that I also have to state that I do not want, after they die, the bodies of Bill & Hill to be embalmed and permanently displayed somewhere in Washington, D.C.

I do not want to see Chelsea Clinton as president in 2016-2024, nor do I want to see Chelsea as president in 2024 after an interregnum of co-presidents Jenna and Barbara from 2016-2024.

Bill should retire from governmental public life and focus on his foundation, like Jimmy Carter.

No more Clintons. No more Bushes. We are not Argentina or India or Congo or Syria. We don't need political dynasties.