Opinion Editorials, February 2008
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American Presidential Candidates: Neither the best,
nor the brightest
By Ben Tanosborn
ccun.org, February 18, 2008
It must have been Harry S. Truman, the plainest amongst our plain
presidents, who scared us all into having idiots running our government
by saying: “Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a
dictatorship.” Of course, he failed to acknowledge the possibility that
we could have the worst of both worlds: inefficient government and
dictatorship. And at this moment, we seem to be marching in step
to get there soon.
Are our nation’s best and brightest so repulsed by the bureaucracy in
the public sector that decidedly prefer to take up arms running the
predatory wing of the private sector?
Maybe some of the “brightest” are doing that, but they cannot also be
called “best” while allowing themselves to be corrupted by a heartless
capitalism equally ready to reward its bright leaders as it is to deny
countless people from sharing the economic trough.
It does look more and more as if both public and private sectors are
being run by the very same gang of thieves, all operating from a single
“carnivalesque” den, where the larcenous elite pick the lazy,
career-politicians as their lead carneys for deceit.
And these lead carneys are seldom the brightest, and definitely never
the best!
Americans have done it in the past… so why not again? I mean…
elect the village idiot to be mayor… well, president and CINC for this
US-village we live in. No disrespect intended, not for the sake of
disrespect; certainly not by simply calling a dumb ass who aspires to be
America’s supreme leader by a first, middle and last name, all in one.
And every village, we are told, is expected, certainly entitled, to have
one. An idiot, that is!
One would think that hitting on nine out of ten prognostications would
make most of us who are humility-challenged, a bit giddy zigzagging in
haughty satisfaction; almost as if invited to a seminar conducted, ex
officio, by none other than Nostradamus – in spirit, of course.
But to me, this nine out of ten “good guesses” that I’ve attained during
this past year lose any and all merit when the error, the incredible
miss, involves the man of the hour, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the
soon-to-be standard bearer for the GOP in the coming presidential
election. And that’s how I messed up, big time, when last May in
one of my columns I prematurely called this politician a has-been, and
laid to rest his presidential ambitions with an obituary that read
R.I.W. (Rest in War) instead of R.I.P.
Foolish me! Of all the predictions I’ve made throughout the years,
this one I thought to be a cinch, a sure thing… an “almost-certainty”
with an infinitesimal margin of error. I was almost embarrassed to
even consider it a prediction instead of a factoid. Pleassse! How
can the Grand Old Party consent to be represented by anyone like John
McCain… a person irrelevant in just about every aspect of the party’s
conservative tradition; a true morbid warmonger just like the present
occupant of the White House; a phony funny-racist; an inarticulate man…
one lacking minimal brain power? How, may I ask?
Could it be that Americans prefer not to have anyone smarter than their
surrounding mediocrity leading them? Or that after having been
submerged at the bottom of iniquity with George W. Bush for eight years,
we might fee the need for a decompression stop presidency before our
nation resurfaces without suffering from the bends? Nonsense… a McCain
presidency would be no different from a Bush’s third term… equal
opportunity idiocy, and more thieveries of the filthy, or cleanly, rich.
One cannot fathom McCain as the next president of the United States… the
new scorn of the gooks and their new replacements, "the terrorist Islamo-fascists"!
Not this burnt scrap from the bottom of Annapolis’ kettle. But
then again, Americans more often than not seem to side with the
perceived underdog, particularly when seen as a hero-patriot, and it
would be hard to find a greater underdog than the village idiot.
Don’t count McCain out… at least for now! It’s an indisputable
fact that in America, money is total power, and at the end of the day
power always grabs the reins.
Ben Tanosborn
www.tanosborn.com
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