US Presidential Election 2008

Do you know that fourty percent of Americans have never lived when there wasn't a Bush or a Clinton in the White House? You get what im trying to say? You see, the Bush and the Clinton family are the most influential political families of the United States. The Bush belonged to the GOP Republican party while the Clintons are with the Democrats. In the coming US Presidential Election, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (Bill Clinton's wife) is hoping to take another four or eight more years of "Clinton" era. As it is, she is increasingly becoming more favourable as the Democrats main candidate and by God, her political war chest is pulling in huge donations for her presidential campaign. So are we gonna have to see a Bush-Clinton-Bush presidential pattern which has already held sway for nearly two decades?

The influence and dominance of the two families in the US Presidential races is unprecedented. (The closest comparisons are the father-son presidencies of John Adams and John Quincy Adams, whose single terms were separated by 24 years, and the presidencies of fifth cousins Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt, whose collective 20 years as President were separated by a quarter-century. Assuming Senator Hillary Clinton were to be elected in the coming elections and manage to get herself re-elected for a second term, the Americans could just be facing 28 years in a row with the same two families governing the United States. If we were to add the former President George Bush Senior's terms as vice president, that would mean a 36 years straight with either a Bush or Clinton in the White House.

Hence for 116 million Americans, there has never been a time when there wasn't a Bush or Clinton in the White House, either as president or vice president. But then, does a nation of 303 million people really have only two families qualified to run the White House? To be their President? But well, there does seem to be concerns about the possibility of giving "the two dynasties" another four or eight years. Is this what democracy is? Surely i dont think this is what democracy means. Wouldnt it be fundamentally healthier if we broadened the zone of candidates who could make it to the top? But this seems to be impossible, since the Clintons and Bushes have built up strong "brand" recognition for their names. Just as the Kennedys did in an age of promise cut short by assassination, making it harder for newcomer wannabes to compete for the poilitical presidential race.

How long could this dynastic dynamic play itself out? If this is bound to continue, i think its best that the Americans and the world keeps an eye on both the Bush-Clinton childrens. For now, there's always presidential brother Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida. His oldest son, George P. Bush, is considered likely to carry the family's political tradition into the next generation.

What say you for if there's a possibilty of a Bush-Bush ticket for 2012? Ouch...

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