Jacques Ketchup has never been one for heavy lifting. He ducked out of Vietnam after four months; he'd likely leave the White House, too, if there were any real work to do.
***Jacques Ketchup has never been one for heavy lifting. He ducked out of Vietnam after four months; he'd likely leave the White House, too, if there were any real work to do.***
Old Frenchie never wasted any time doing Senate work, did he? Heck, if he were in the White House and there was work to do, he'd just have his Vice President sue the culprits who caused the work.
That statement right there very neatly sums up exactly what the Kerry Administration will be if he wins in November. There's a very good reason why his campaign is now staffed with nothing but Clintonoids, and all his political appointments will be the same tired recycled Clinton hacks. These poeple, with Bill in the background pulling the strings, will be the real power in the Kerry White House.
And John Kerry will like that just fine. He doesn't really want to be president - all he wants is the prestige and the perks and the ego-massage that come with the office. He'd be perfectly happy spending his entire term jet-setting around the world with Teresa, attending state dinners in Paris and UN summits in posh resorts around the world, posing for glamor shots and creating his own vision of Camelot. And when there aren't any of these events around, he'll be in Hyannisport or at any one of Teresa's other palaces showing the world what a stud he is.
The grubby little day-to-day details of the job, the wheeling and the dealing with the Hill, the wrangling over the budgets and the grip-and-grins with Miss Florida Orange Juice will be handled by "lesser people" than America's new royal family, only to be noticed by His Highness when it's time to appear before his subjects on TV. And while Bill's and Hillary's first choice would not be to be the power behind the throne, they'll take it for now while they wait their turn to ascend the throne.
And to think the media harped constantly about Ronald Reagan being the ventriloquist's dummy of his handlers, and say the same thing about George W. Bush.