2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDowd: Brace Yourself for Hillary and Jeb
WASHINGTON OY. By the time the Bushes and Clintons are finished, they are going to make the Tudors and the Plantagenets look like pikers.
Before these two families release their death grip on the American electoral system, were going to have to watch Chelseas granddaughter try to knock off George P.s grandson, Prescott Walker Bush II. Barack Obama, who once dreamed of being a transformational president, will turn out to be a mere hiccup in history, the interim guy who provided a tepid respite while Hillary and Jeb geared up to go at it.
Elections for president are supposed to make us feel young and excited, as if were getting a fresh start. Thats the way it was with J.F.K. and Obama and, even though he was turning 70 when he got inaugurated, Ronald Reagan.
But, as the Clinton library tardily disgorged 3,546 pages of official papers Friday dredging up memories of a presidency that was eight years of turbulence held steady by a roaring economy and an incompetent opposition, a reign roiled by Hillarycare, Vince Foster, Whitewater, Webb Hubbell, Travelgate, Monica, impeachment, Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey and Marc Rich the looming prospect of another Clinton-Bush race makes us feel fatigued.
Our meritocratic society seems increasingly nepotistic and dynastic. There was a Bush or a Clinton in the White House and cabinet for 32 years straight. Were Bill Murray stuck at 6 a.m. in Harold Ramiss comic masterpiece, Groundhog Day. As Times Michael Crowley tweeted on Friday, Who else is looking forward to potentially TEN more years of obsessing about Hillary Clintons past, present and future?
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Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)I quit taking her seriously after the Al Gore "earth tones" column.
Skittles
(153,254 posts)cannot take her seriously
BeyondGeography
(39,390 posts)Hillary/Jeb puts MoDo right where she wants to be; on automatic pilot, getting paid big money for what she purportedly used to be.
brooklynite
(94,852 posts)DFW
(54,465 posts)Hillary, no matter how one might like or dislike her positions and connections, is battle-tested and battle-scarred. Jeb Bush has handled the governorship of Florida. A little coaching by Frank Luntz, and he'll get through the debates OK, but he'll open his mouth sooner or later, and hope he'll get by like his brother did, saying "I'm not a libbrul!"
All Hillary (or any other Democratic candidate, for that matter) has to do is echo Mondale's classic "Where's the beef?" Bush will have to meekly answer, "I'm a vegan."
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)family is bilingual.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)One of the 99
(2,280 posts)Snark with no substance.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)Clinton a blowjob.
kairos12
(12,891 posts)Beacool
(30,253 posts)Dowd always comes off as bitter and catty when she refers to Hillary. The NY grapevine had it that she had the hots for Bill in the 90s, but he didn't look her way.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Isn't that the big fear on DU? Clintons and Bushes forever?
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)No More Clintons.
No More Bushes.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)Seriously, trying to predict how the primaries will turn out right now is a fool's errand. Remember how the 2008 election was gonna be Rudy v. Hillary? How'd that work out?