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The Upside of a Hillary Administration
In the lemons-to-lemonade spirit, Ctlaw has offered a post inviting us to ponder what might be amusing about a Trump presidency …
So I figured I’d try the same for Hillary: what would be not-so-bad or even downright good, or at least hilarious about a Hillary presidency?
For the sake of brevity, I’ll get this one out of the way: She’s not Trump and will #Never[be]Trump.
My other suggestion is simply that if Hillary is sworn in, we can stop fussing about The First Female President, and maybe? maybe? Dare I hope? take a step toward evaluating all candidates based on the content of their characters rather than the contents of their abdominal cavities.
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Positive: We will no longer be denounced as racists by the left every time we disagree with the president.
Negative: We will be denounced as misogynists by the left every time we disagree with the president.
Positive: We will no longer have to listen to crackpots go on about the president being born in Kenya or being a secret Muslim.
Negative: We will have to listen to crackpots go on about the president murdering Vince Foster.
OK, here’s one that’s an unalloyed positive. When Hillary Clinton gets a Nobel Peace Prize for nothing (like Obama did), just think how jealous that will make Bill. He will still be the only Democratic president since Lyndon Johnson NOT to get a Nobel. Even his VP got one!
LOL, now there is a bright side I never thought of. ;)
But really, unfortunately, Republicans aren’t going to do that.
There were rumors throughout Bill’s presidency. Supposedly she was channeling Eleanor Roosevelt.
I believe that only the most radical feminists will be joyous about her election. A whole lot of Democrats are not thrilled about the prospect of her presidency, but they will go through the kabuki theatre required at the inauguration. After that, it will be fun to watch them squirm.
Ummmm….I share hotel rooms with all sorts of people. Mostly police officers. Some male. (Space is tight during COPS Week.)
I think you need to look up the definition of the word “rumor”.
I’m guessing the resources of a First Lady, sitting US Senator, or sitting Secretary of State, as far as obtaining adequate hotel room space, exceed that of the average police officer.
Regarding the rumor, It’s not just Gennifer Flowers.
http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/bill-clintons-ex-mistress-sleeps-with-loaded-gun/
That’s true. On the other hand, I get lonely in hotel rooms, and prefer to have them filled with cops…
I guess I can’t run for president—the opposition would be sure to unearth this and put a kinky spin on it.
60’s nostalgia makes yet another comeback? Is that good?
nowadays the gossip might be that you practice some form of Christianity….
I hope I live to see the day when blacks figure out what Democrats and the Left (but, I repeat myself) have done to them. Is it bad how much I plan to enjoy seeing them get their richly deserved comeuppance?
Oh dear. Ya think?
No, Western Chauvinist. I know that your first impulse is to want the people to be safe and happy…and only then that the democrats be ashamed and miserable!
I thought about this: what a funny idea, that my religion might be more shocking than my uniform fetish?
So not rumour but…hearsay?
On this subject the Right can’t help itself.
Plus clicks, votes – it’s like a fat kid with cake.
(Oh who am I kidding?!!! I was in the ladies section of the Mosque at Mosman [yes, in drag, what, you think I got no respect?] and I heard that Hilary and Huma are totally doing it. Huma is the man [because mustache] and Hilary has already secretly converted to Islam [that’s why the pant suits]. I also heard from a very very reliable source – okay my aunt’s friend’s hairdresser’s mother’s social worker, but she has a totes honest face – that Huma’s going to have a gaby using Nasrallahs’…)
I would love to see a bunch of bitter screeching middle aged harpies complaining there are no good men around. Then lobby for government to pay for artificial insemination so they can go ahead and perform their liberal sacrament of taxpayer funded abortion on demand.
What have you got agains bitter, screeching, middle aged harpies? i’m one myself…although, admittedly, I think there are an awful lot of good men around.
being a middle aged, overweigh balding guy, I can’t afford to have fetishes. But, a uniform fetish seems reasonable to me. Do you wear a collar with your uniform all the time and if you don’t, can you tell a difference in the way you are treated?
umm, I don’t believe this accounting, else we would have had some tweets by Carlos Danger as proof….
No and…maybe?
I wear a collar sometimes. The collar makes it very clear that I am a chaplain rather than a law enforcement officer (useful for some things but seriously useless for others). People usually respond to it as I intend them to–recognizing that the collar means I am there to be with them, and help them as lovingly as I can. Occasionally, someone will make it plain that the collar means more or less the opposite—that I will either be incapable of grasping that they aren’t Christian (if they are, say, Jewish, Buddhist or, indeed, atheist) or that I’m there to impose a specific religious view on them or be judgmental or obnoxious. In those cases, the collar becomes an obstacle, so I take it off. This is pretty rare, though—people are mostly pretty accommodating and generous.
BTW, for the most part, if I’m not wearing the collar it’s because they aren’t all that comfortable–they chafe your neck. On the other hand, it’s amazing how that little band of white can get you admitted into Intensive Care Units…
There are no upsides to either presidency. We (the members) are reasonable people surrounded by the unreasoning and unreasonable.
My predictions are for the summer are thus:
I’m just gonna call him Bill the Greek…
I can’t disagree with any of these.
Question – voter turnout in the fall – Higher than “normal”, or lower?
While dearly hoping that Lazy Millenial is right in comment #20, I don’t want to see a Hillary Clinton presidency as the trigger for this consummation devoutly to be wished. In fact, I don’t want to see a Scylla vs. Charybdis election in November, so start the new conservative party and/or Cruz for President write-in campaign right now. Or Vote for Gary Johnson en masse.
This I cannot predict. If any one of my list comes true it becomes a question of how does the electorate react to each? Would riots in the convention cities turn voters right or left? If either party is left scrambling for a candidate, who gets picked? If Hillary survives her legal woes would a foreign crisis help her or hurt her?
Everything that we thought we knew about electoral politics in America seems to be inoperative at the moment. The key is a rising anger that seems to be volatile. On one side is a group of young, idealistic socialists with no clue and a taste for revenge and on the other an aging population that has been betrayed by both parties and they have an impressive arsenal and the knowledge to use it. That’s not a recipe for long term stability.
” Time makes more converts than reason.”
Thomas Paine. Common Sense.
Watching the fear and confusion come into her eyes when she realizes that as president, she can’t dodge hard challenges with a glassy-eyed stare into the middle distance accompanied by “The Cackle”
Aren’t past presidents still addressed as “Mr. President?” Would they “Mr. and Mrs. President?” Or “Mrs. and Mr.” since she would be the incumbent?