For more on this shocking development, follow me down down down down down... I'll even throw in a real catfight that'll make the much-hyped CNN "(garden)SLUGFEST Slugfest slugfest" look like... the walk in the park that it pretty much was.
Dynasty
A dynasty is a succession of rulers who belong to the same family for generations. A dynasty is also often called a "house", e.g. the House of Saud or House of Habsburg. In the histories of Europe, much of Asia and some of Africa, ruling and noble houses have usually been patrilineal; inheritance and kinship being predominantly viewed and legally calculated through descent from a common ancestor in the male line. Often, however, if the male lineage died out, descendants through females (and sometimes the females themselves) were recognized as entitled to inherit the dynasty's realms and/or wealth.
Dynasty: Alexis and Krystle lily pond catfight
Bush family wiki
Originating in East Orange, New Jersey, the Bush family in the 20th century became an accomplished political family in the United States, including across three generations a U.S. Senator, two Governors, one Vice President and two Presidents. Many other members have been successful bankers and businessmen. George and Barbara Bush have been married for 62 years, holding the record for the longest married presidential couple. Peter Schweizer, author of a biography of the family, has described the Bushes as "the most successful political dynasty in American history."[1] The Bush family is of English, German, Welsh, Irish, and French descent.
(1863–1948), a close advisor to President Hoover, was president of the Ohio Association of Manufacturers and a major Columbus industrialist.
* Prescott Bush (1895–1972), Samuel P. Bush's son, served as a US Senator from Connecticut.
* Dorothy Walker Bush (1901–1992), the wife of Prescott, was the daughter of George Herbert Walker of the well-connected Walker family of bankers and businessmen
o Prescott Bush, Jr. (born 1922), Prescott Bush's eldest son, served as chairman of the U.S.-China Chamber of Commerce.
o George H.W. Bush (born 1924), Prescott Bush Sr.'s second son, was the 41st US President, a Congressman from Houston, and CIA director, and also held other political and diplomatic posts. Before his political career he was in the oil business in Texas.
o Barbara Pierce Bush (born 1925), the daughter of publisher Marvin Pierce, was First Lady of the US and Second Lady of the US during her husband's terms.
(a LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG I mean yada yada yada yada yada for eons list of prominent, connected, monied Bushites follows complete with familiy tree for those who can stomach it)
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Hillary Clinton's wiki page doesn't contain anything remotely like that about her lineage or ancestry. Bill Clinton's early years are also fairly lean.
William Jefferson Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III in Hope, Arkansas, and raised in Hot Springs, Arkansas. His father was William Jefferson Blythe, Jr., a traveling salesman, who died in a car accident three months prior to the birth of his son.[1] In 1950, his mother, Virginia Dell Cassidy (1923-1994), married Roger Clinton, a partner with his brother in an automobile dealership.[12]
William Jefferson Blythe III in 1950 at age four. Known at the time as Billy, he did not formally adopt his stepfather's name until aged 14.
William Jefferson Blythe III in 1950 at age four. Known at the time as Billy, he did not formally adopt his stepfather's name until aged 14.
It was not until Billy (as he was known then) turned 14 that he formally adopted his stepfather's surname of Clinton, although he had assumed use of it prior to that. Clinton has said that he remembers his stepfather as a gambler and an alcoholic who regularly abused his mother and, at times, his half-brother, Roger, Jr.
By thew way, the big scary "Clinton dynasty" keywords itself straight back to"clinton dynasty" Erm, the Cato Institute? heh I'm just "shocked, shocked!"
Alright. Why does this matter? Isn't this just semantics?
Uhhhh... uhhhh, uhhhh- NO! It really isn't!
The Clintons are self-made people from humble origins who worked really hard to get where they are. They each earned formal educations most of the world, one that billions of people can only dream of attaining, rising to the top of their fields in a big, big way.
If Chelsea Clinton someday runs for & attains President of the Known World, then you can say dynasty. But for now I'm afraid you'll have to settle for some other word. Not cronyism- Bush has that. Bush has dynasty. Bush has nepotism. Bush- oligarchy, check. You get the idea. The Clintons kind of embody the American Dream in a really neat way whereas the Bush Family is kind of destroying on a daily basis the chance for people to actually go in the direction in which the American Dream was last spotted, looking horribly shaken with all of its belongings hastily thrown into a plastic garbage bag seven years ago?
Please, don't play into this meme of equating the Clintons with the Bush family. You don't have to love them. You don't even have to vote in their direction. But please understand that flawed as they may be, they certainly do not a dynasty make. They're even on the side that believes in government, not in drowning it in a bathtub! Or hurricaine, even.
Yes, I do agree that there is too much power in the hands of too few people in this country, as well as elsewhere in the world. This is a pattern we see exerted throughout history. This is a pattern we are hopefully here to change with the wind of the 50 State Strategy at our backs, etc.
But please. At minimum, don't reinforce the idea that this legacy Clinton is the same as this one Bush