[Bill,
January 9, 2008]
Predictions
You know, I'm still tired from the last presidential election. Seems like the last four years have flown by. And it seems like this presidential election cycle is endless.
So right now, all I can predict right now is the screamingly obvious -- that there will be a cacophony of commentary, and that the mainstream media (and many bloggers) will end up making a lot of noise about and overstate the significaance of every little twist and turn. Result: What's probably pretty obvious to the casual observer will seem obvious only in retrospect to those closely following the race.
The only thing I can predict (barring unforeseeable events) is that our next president will be one of the following six people: McCain, Clinton, Obama, Romney, Giuliani and Huckabee.
If you were the HR manager of the U.S. government and you were choosing the CEO from these people, who would you recommend the Board choose?
Me? I would say McCain, Romney or Giuliani.
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So right now, all I can predict right now is the screamingly obvious -- that there will be a cacophony of commentary, and that the mainstream media (and many bloggers) will end up making a lot of noise about and overstate the significaance of every little twist and turn. Result: What's probably pretty obvious to the casual observer will seem obvious only in retrospect to those closely following the race.
The only thing I can predict (barring unforeseeable events) is that our next president will be one of the following six people: McCain, Clinton, Obama, Romney, Giuliani and Huckabee.
If you were the HR manager of the U.S. government and you were choosing the CEO from these people, who would you recommend the Board choose?
Me? I would say McCain, Romney or Giuliani.
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A HR manager never chooses a CEO. A board of director's might do it, but never a HR manager. That strikes me as how a small group of people selected and vetted our current President (the CEO President) and got the GOP machine financed his rise to power while trashing people like John McCain.
That said, I currently believe you have correctly identified the six people from which the next President will be chosen.
I just hope it is not Rudy G, but I trust that the next administration that comes (even Rudy's) will be an improvement over the current administration. I wish I could say the same for the next Congress, but I don't have those kind of crazy high hopes.