Most/Many/Some of you are familiar with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross' "On Death and Dying" or have heard of the distillation of the stages of grief. Denial is the first, iirc, acceptance is the last.
Can we not look upon HClinton's current campaign as the completion of grief-work for liberalism in America?
One of the stages in the middle is "bargaining with God." I think the insistence on Elizabeth Warren running is roughly equivalent to that stage.
But if the DIE has been cast, we might seek the serenity of acceptance. Perhaps Americans take their dramas a bit too seriously; which, ironically ends up in Exceptional American Silliness.
If you want to give a comedian 4-8 great years, then you vote The Direction to Hell, and Kate McKinnon will have a wonderful career. Do we not owe our comedians/comediennes something, for their surgically necessary balloon pricking? Just today, a non-medical doctor turned to me at work and asked "What are we going to do without Jon Stewart?"
And forget the "First Dude" stuff for BClinton! Iirc, Sarah Palin used that term for Todd.
I want him to be First Laddie. We know there is an imp inside him. I'd even like to see him take on some of the traditional roles of first spouses in some White House redecoration ventures. If the Oval Office is no longer a man-cave, maybe one is needed in the West Wing? Imagine the delightful pics in said mancave with The Clintonessa grandchild. Playing with her Tinkertoy hedge-fund manager set. (help me here--of what would that consist?)
Not to mention that BClinton's wardrobe should be everyone's obsession. He can promote Haitian designers and the Haitian models will be grateful to eat.
It would be totally cool if HClinton stopped wearing make-up, too. (Trying to remember if Golda Meir wore make-up... If she did, it made her utterly look like Lyndon Johnson.)
Benazir Bhutto? Like all good Muslim women being humble before God by wearing a scarf, she hit it out of the park on make-up. And it just so happens that going grey/white haired and being Joni Mitchell old is the height of fashion? Honest to goddess, I saw a high school kid, not with that goddessawful blue, red or orange streaked in her hair, but grey!
And finally, consider the potential ascendancy of Park Ridge. We used to drive through Park Ridge on the way to the grandparents when I was young. I kind of liked that interlude. There was an architecturally interesting movie theater there and actually a little curve in the drive through town. Eventually followed by Chicago factory faces.
And come on, did you ever think that the first female president of the US was not going to be blond?
(Apologies to Shirley Chisholm)