Pissing Contest: Enough

That's President pissypants trying to push his way past the Big Dog to be first through the door at the opening of Bill's library.

Bear with me a minute . . .

I took the fam to Disneyworld this past week, and I discovered that time travel IS possible.

You get that same sense of excitement walking through Main Street USA when you were small with a million possible rides ahead, the castle in the distance and a grin on your face, and when YOUR kid says she wants to ride on Dada's shoulders, all seems to be right with the world.

One of the things I remember as a youngster was the hall of Presidents and watching Lincoln come alive and give the Gettysburg address, so you just know I dragged the family in. It was nice and cool in the auditorium.

The plain vanilla animated intro started, the curtain/screen parted and all 43 presidents were standing there, not just Abe. Ok, kinda cool. They looked at each other, the audience. A narrator says (paraphrasing), "At all times in our history, the American people have chosen the best among us to lead in time of trial and peace."

Wait a sec . . . isn't Nixon up there?

Moving on, he names all 43 prezs', and then, HOLY SHIT, the Bush animatron stands up and gives a stumbling attempt at high falutin' flag wavin' complete with musical score and a whole lot of 64 cent words. Robotic, but oddly lifelike anyway. And then I notice . . .

Bush and Clinton both have on dark navy suits. Both have red (power) ties. Both look near identical and it hits me.

All of the Bush years in office have been about getting back, at those hillbilly Clintons, those damn dirty hippies, the enemy (Bush calls democrats the enemy in a past Texas Monthly article), those meanies who called Poppy Bush wimpy, but especially those Clintons.

Do we need this anymore? Do we need another cycle of paybacks with us in the middle? If Hillary wins, what Republican offspring/scion will be called forth next to "FIX" our country. George P. Bush followed by Chelsea?

Any democrat is better than a rethug, but if Hillary is in and serves 2, we will have had two families as head of state for 24 years.

No aristocracy and their courtier infighting for this guy.

Am I way off?

-Prodigal Son