Shark for President.
January 29th, 2007
On NPR this weekend, viagra sale troche a newscaster asked the audience to think of someone they knew in their own lives who might make a good President of the United States.
The exercise scared the POTUS out of me.
I don’t know a single soul that I would trust to be comptroller of Wauwatosa, nurse Wisconsin let alone run the most powerful country on the planet.
In fact, the better I knew someone the less qualified they seemed to be to hold office.
Then I realized there was one person I had met who might possibly barely qualify to be President: Harvard-trained lawyer Rick Essenberg who blogs regularly at Shark & Shepherd.
Rick seems wickedly smart, well-informed, well-spoken, and diplomatic even in disagreement.
Maybe if I knew Rick better the mere thought of giving him the power to send the F.B.I. after me would have me hiding in a closet wearing one of J. Edgar Hoover’s old dresses, but the sad truth is I know no one better to suggest for the job.
And if a shark is going to sit in the Oval Office, I’d rather have it be one who also had the soul of a shepherd.
Entry Filed under: Observations,Politics
2 Comments Add your own
1. buzz | January 29th, 2007 at 10:05 am
No one who actually wants the job should be allowed to have it. Who was it who said that, long before I did, and more eloquently?
There was a short speculative fiction story that I read long enough ago that I’ve forgotten both the author, title, and anything else except the basic premise: In some future society the “President” is chosen at random. You get a month, or a week, or something like that, to make decisions, then someone else takes over.
Would that actually work? Probably not.
2. Brian | January 29th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
There was a short speculative fiction story that I read long enough ago that I’ve forgotten both the author, title, and anything else except the basic premise: In some future society the “President” is chosen at random
Sounds like In The Years of the City; “Gwenanda and the Supremes” by Fred Pohl.. Or not .. the title character is a draftee to the Supreme Court; most of the business of the draftee government is to undo as many laws as possible.
I don’t see it happening (I’m a cynic – the current pols would have to give up everything they’ve spent their life working for) but it was an entertaining story.
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