And here’s my final offer for 2008 dream tickets, take it or leave it:
(And yes, again … it could be Gates/Oprah in 2008.)
I call this one the “Compassionate Rationality” ticket.
Hmmm … or we could call it “If we only had a brain … AND a heart”.
Billg would be the benevolent technocrat … using science, rationality, and technology to address our nations top issues. (Note, that when I say Billg, I’m referring to the Bill Gates who funds the worlds largest charitable foundation, not the Billg who ran Microsoft - people tend to like the former but not the latter.)
As some of you will note, pure unmitigated rationality can be a bit cold. So … we add one part Oprah to warm the ticket a little.
Billg and his cranially super-endowed cabinet would propose rational policies to address issues like health care, taxation, foreign policy, immigration, etc., etc., etc. While Oprah would be the heart of the operation, bringing actual compassion the White House. And she’d make a great foreign ambassador. What world leader could resist her charming ways? Kim Jung-Il would immediately disarm and begin democratisation after Oprah talked to him and got him to open up about his difficult childhood.
Yeah, so they’re a bit short of on the political experience department. However, at least we’d have smart people running the show again.
Man, remember back when the biggest problem our country was facing was weather or not the President got a blowjob? Wow, those were the days…
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