The Four Most Terrifying Words Ever

[filkertom]

Someone on my FList mentioned their choice: "We need to talk". I offer that person many hugs -- and, in a desperate attempt to lighten the mood, a few alternatives:

"I'm wearing the Speedo."
"Who did these taxes?"
"Where's the nuclear material?"
Joel Schumacher's Star Wars
Rob Liefeld drawing Constantine
Licorice-habanero Life Savers
Walt Disney's Sin City

Feel free to kick in.

Comments

[billroper]

I'm a bit baffled by your reaction, but let me explain.

For the (I suspect) rather large number of Americans who don't think much of a dynastic presidency, GWB makes them a bit skeevy even if they approve of his politics. (And, if they don't, they can be double skeevy.) A Jeb Bush presidential campaign would be really ugly in that respect.

On the other hand, a Hillary Clinton run also would be yet another bite at the dynastic presidency apple. And a campaign that pitted two dynastic presidential candidates against each other would maximize the inherent ugliness. You could make the same joke with Ted Kennedy, but he's unlikely to be a candidate for president again in this universe, while speculation about Hillary continues.

Thus, the terror derives from the theoretic inability of both parties to find a candidate who isn't part of a presidential dynasty, rather than any observations about the inherent qualifications of either candidate.

[skull-leader3.livejournal.com]

And in the same vein, there are some who are talking about Bush/Cheney 2008...Laura & Lynne.

[billroper]

Oh, I want some of the drugs that they're taking...

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

As for me, I'm very much not in favor of a dynasty. Quite apart from my own opinions of the Bushes or the Clintons, the entire point of our electoral system is to keep the mix... mixed. And, in theory, the people we elect are supposed to have at heart the best interests of the entire country, and try to accommodate as many of those interests as possible.