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Friday, September 28, 2007

Bush-Clinton fatigue

From an AP story:

WASHINGTON - Forty percent of Americans have never lived when there wasn't a Bush or a Clinton in the White House. Anyone got a problem with that?

With Hillary Rodham Clinton hoping to tack another four or eight "Clinton" years on to the Bush-Clinton-Bush presidential pattern that already has held sway for two decades, talk of Bush-Clinton fatigue is increasingly cropping up in the national political debate.

Do you think? I was tired of it years ago. Specifically 1980, when Bush the First used the phrase "voodoo economics," then embraced same so he could ride Reagan's coattails.

I was tired of the Clintons in 1992.

Bush vs. Clinton is a family of clueless privilege vs. a family of scheming bullies. Although I will say Barbara Bush is my favorite First Lady in my lifetime.

I must be in a rotten mood today.