History in the making June 4, 2008 ~ 9:54 am
Posted by Julie in : Politically Incorrect, Technobabble , trackbackYesterday I upgraded the blog to WordPress 2.5.1 or whatever the hell it is. Suddenly, I have my editing tools back when I’m writing a post (yeah, I guess when you’re 3 versions behind the latest release, they start to take fun toys away from you as a means of spurring you into upgrading). I also have many other tools that I have no idea how to use. I will learn them, slowly but surely, but today I’m just going to ignore them. At least until later this afternoon when I’m bored - that was yesterday’s pattern: install something, become irritated with it, ignore it for a while, come back to it and figure it out. If anyone saw the seventy times I changed the blog template yesterday afternoon, you will understand what I’m talking about.
The cold is manageable now, the fever is gone, and I am back at work. Wearing an Obama ‘08 sticker. Because hey, how ’bout my boy Barack? There were times along the way where I had my doubts, but now he’s the presumptive nominee and I am a very happy girl, enjoying the day. Hillary’s speech pissed me off a little until Tim Russert’s commentary helped me understand it. My thought process last night went something like this: “Seriously, you’re not going to make a decision? Dude, you lost. Decision has been made. Start unifying the party by stepping down. Ohhh, wait. If she plays this very, very carefully, she might convince all of her supporters who were saying they were going to go over to McCain that Obama is okay, especially if she goes for the VP slot. We might have a united party the easy way. She is either Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius, or just someone who can’t admit that she’s lost. I am hoping for the Coyote route.”
And then I started to think about things from an historical perspective (there are a lot of ifs in this scenario, by the way). Let’s say Barack offers Hillary the VP slot, and the Dems take the White House in January. Let’s say Barack serves 8 years as President, and then Hillary is elected President in 2016 and she serves 8 years. If that happens, then Hillary Clinton will have been in the White House in one capacity or another for 24 years, if we count the Bill years. I am not sure whether this is very cool or very scary - we do have term limits for a reason, after all. But the idea of it is mind-blowing, isn’t it?
Comments
The idea is flippin AWESOME!
Thank you for showing me the way, Oh-Julie-one. I am indebted to you.
Aimee~One of the reasons I didn’t vote for Hillary was that I don’t agree with the concept of a dynasty in American politics, and this has the possibility to be very dynastic. But in theory, it’s a cool idea. In practice, I’m not so sure.
The pendulum swings. I seriously doubt after 8 yrs of Obama that the country would willingly elect Clinton. I think this was her one chance and she blew it.