Bush and Kennedy

I had a good laugh at the comments made in my last post comparing the qualifications of GWB to Caroline Kennedy (BTW, my point exactly).

I had this to say in my May 28, 2007 post:

I am not suggesting American life is, or should be, fair. Only that we have deceived ourselves into believing that it is. Life has always been a competition with its resultant “winners” and “losers”. If you are a self-made “winner” that came up out of the muck and mire, you understand this without further explanation. If you were born into a “winner” family, advantages such as private schools, summers on the Vineyard, a semester abroad, before beginning your career on Wall Street, the Law, or Medicine were the norm. Our very own George W. Bush, an admitted “C” student, was accepted to the prestigious Harvard Business School. Considering how limited seating was at HBS my bet is that some less-well-connected straight “A” student was the “loser” in that competition (it gets even better… “W” once said in commenting on performance enhancing drug use by athletes that “there are no short cuts to success” – "W" was a Yale legacy student (his family were Yale Aumni)! Hypocracy knows no bounds.) If you were born into a “loser” family, your experience was somewhat different than W’s. Still, “losers”, at least in America, did not starve. The rest of the world’s “losers” have not been so fortunate.

System after system in our society encourages people to "choose their own kind".  95% of the black vote went for Obama.  White guys promote white guys in corporate America.  A primary qualification of Bernie Madoff as far as his customers were concerned was that he was a Jew.  All this works out fine if your "affinity group" is in a position of power.  If you are a poor black or white trash (like me) teenager trying to get a job or accepted to college... well, not so much.

We have some serious issues to contend with and I think that the people of New York have thousands of more qualified and deserving folks than Caroline Kennedy to be New York's next Senator.  In 2009, The U.S. will likely have a budget deficit of - get this - $2 TRILLION ( I feel like Dr. Evil from Austin Powers when I say that) and New York is going to appoint a person that has NEVER BALANCED HER OWN CHECK BOOK????!!!!

I can't take it anymore!!!!!

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