It's a sad day in America when the political experience of a viable candidate for a state's highest office matches that of a body builder...or when the candidate is a body builder. People mock President Bush as lacking political finesse, general knowledge/intelligence in matters ranging from fiscal policy to foreign policy to environmental issues, usurping the civil rights of his nation's citizens, and lacking the ability to lead this great nation anywhere but down the drain. They claim he doesn't lead; he merely follows the directions of his father (I must admit that I don't, for a nanosecond, believe that he speaks to his father a mere twice a month, double the frequency he speaks to his brother Jeb...that had to have been a lie on Fox's Monday night "Conversation with the President"), his neocon cabinet, and the wealthy 1% to whom he gave the big tax breaks.
But it's not just the confusing court rulings and disenfranchisement of voters that makes the California recall (inspired by a Congressman I had the pleasure of meeting and speaking with while in DC last summer) seem like 2000 all over again. It's that critics are accusing the Republicans of fielding another airhead candidate. But this time I concur. What does "Ah-nold" know about solving the huge budget deficit? What, will he call his Hollywood friends and ask them to donate some cash to the cause? What does he know about dealing with pollution? About the annual mudslides and forest fires? About being politically correct? About dealing with others without blowing or shooting them up? About anything remotely political, let alone gubenatorial?
I'm just glad I live in New York...with Hillary, Bill, and the weekly Chuck Schumer socialist press conference of the week.