Ronald Reagan died about thirty years ago. (And no, if you look closely, there is nothing in the constitution that says that you have to be alive to be president.)

-fred

But that’s at least partly because they’re basically a bunch of nuts and dolts anyway.

-fred

Don’t be silly. Republican presidents enter into a quantum blame singularity in which everything bad they do is the responsibility of Congress, and everything right they do is because they are posessed by the Ghost of Ronald Reagan.

Ronald Reagan is dead?

It’s pretty simple, really, except for a few dolts.

But the right has never been too good at playing “Connect the Dolts”.

The only poor shlub I can think of who was thoroughly tarred by the sins of his predecessors was Jimmy Carter. He was handed a truly shitty situation, and to this day people insist it was all his fault.

James Earl gets tha last word:

You better get down on your hands and knees and kiss Jimmy Carter’s rosy-red Georgia-peach-picking ass and beg me to run your fucking country again, because there’s no way I’m ever gonna come to you fuck-knobs and politely ask you if I might please be a presidential candidate in your precious fuckin’ election. So you can just bite my cock.

No, it’s not.

12, 18, 32, 43, 47, 58. For the love of God, quote these numbers back to us in a reply as soon as you can…

Jonah, I never doubted you. And now we have teh incontrovertible proof!!!11!!11!

Article. V. – Amendment

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.

… Oh sure, it sounds official, but it doesn’t so much as mention the Founding Fathers(tm), let alone spell out what they want from the future. How can they be expected to rule from beyond the grave at all? I’m beginning to question the legitimacy of this “Constitution.” Why, I can’t find Ludwig von Mises’s signature anywhere on it!

But there IS HOPE if we can all get our act together and campaign for an “original intent” amendment. I imagine it’d get a lot backing from the seance lobby.

I don’t see any FDRs in the race, but then again, FDR wasn’t really “an FDR” in the way we think of him today. Okay, I know that sounds very Jonah Goldberg-esque; but what I mean is that FDR came from the highest levels of the political/economic elite of his day and only made the concessions to the poor & exploited that he did because he was forced into it by an enormous economic crisis (the Great Depression) AND the rising of the poor & exploited around the world (mostly through variations of Marxism: Russia, Germany, China, and so on).

The economic crisis wasn’t enough in of itself, but the crisis coupled with the very real threat of revolution is what did it. I personally don’t think there is a very real threat of revolution in the US today, so I wouldn’t expect any of the ruling multimillionaire/billionaire elites (regardless of party affiliation) making any meaningful changes within the immediate future.

But then again, as a liberal fascist I have to be pessimistic…

I confess, I’ve never figured out the time stamp on this board. I’m pretty sure it’s not Greenwich Mean Time, and it sure as hell ain’t my time.

It’s ANGRY PARTY TIME!

Grrrrr! Smash!

I hope one of these people running is an FDR or better then, because it looks like Bush is going to leave a mess that will make Hoover look like a piker at creating an economic debacle. In addition to the two or more wars that will be going on that is.

Maybe. But there is precedent to the contrary. FDR comes to mind. So does Bill Clinton, in a lesser sense.

The only poor shlub I can think of who was thoroughly tarred by the sins of his predecessors was Jimmy Carter. He was handed a truly shitty situation, and to this day people insist it was all his fault.

Okay, so it’s totally random, just like I figured.