Recent events got me thinking about previous State Governors, starting with flower child, ex-hippie, Brown of CA – after which the B-movie actor, Reagan, and the body builder, action hero, Arnold, are no surprise. Then there was the professional wrestler in Minnesota, and last - and probably least - the failed Texas oil company owner/ underachieving Texas ball club owner, Bush. Of these, we are currently suffering under the incompetent presidency of Bush. Some argue that Reagan was a good president – I beg to differ. I was involved with a company researching alternative energy processes with the National Labs when the Reagan administration canceled support of all these projects (He also sidetracked metrication as un-American, so we still use “British Thermal Units”) and returned to full reliance on Middle Eastern oil – a shortsighted blunder from which we are still suffering. This, plus tax cuts for the rich (mine went up) to put us in debt, confirm in my mind that he was not that great either, although he did give a good speech, having been a sports announcer, as well as an actor. Which brings me to the latest governor under consideration, the runner-up small town beauty queen, Idaho sports communication graduate, small town mayor / sports announcer, who moved in a period of less than two years from mayor of less than 10,000 to governor of Alaska to nomination for Vice President of the United States. What a country! Well, lots of luck on that one!

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At least you don't have to live (daily) with Ah-nold!

And, she can make a good speech, too! She's got breadth of education - 5 colleges in 5 years... no, those numbers are wrong because the numbers weren't the same... Can't look them up right now. And, Mike Huckabee says that she got more votes for mayor than Biden did for the nomination... So Joe Biden got fewer than 909 votes?? Hmm, he did really badly...

comment by sunlight on Sept 8, 2008 3:26 AM ()

Well, I took a semester of speech and one time could give a good one too - AND I know nothing of foreign policy too (unless you count novels by John LeCarre)so if I were pretty I guess I would be elgible - likely you too have many of these same important qualifications. Thanks for the comment - we will see which of the 909 vote people looks better in the debate

reply by baseeker on Sept 8, 2008 10:29 AM ()