Shakes here…
Okay, he didn't really lay out the case against Hillary, but he did lay out one of my basic objections to the thought of President Hillary Clinton in 2008:
President George W. Bush says Bill Clinton has become so close to his father that the Democratic former president is like a member of the family…
Bush jokingly referred to speculation that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former president's wife, will seek the Democratic nomination for the presidency. He had earlier referred to the former first lady as "formidable."
"Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton," he said, referring to how Bill Clinton had followed his father, and Hillary Clinton could follow him.
I have all kinds of reasons for not being thrilled about Hillary as the Democratic nominee, most of which are more substantive, but the thought that members of two families could be running the country for a minimum of twenty-four consecutive years (thirty-two, if you count George H.W. Bush’s vice presidency) is just ridiculous.
(And, in a broader sense, it is part and parcel of substantive issues like how power plays out in American politics and the primary process and other things, but generally speaking, it's just sort of yucky.)
