If Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton are what our choices will be reduced to in 2016, that will be a crying shame. Can’t we at least come up with a couple new names, or are we doomed to be trapped forever in these pathetic efforts to replay the 1990s?
Yes, everybody had a grand old time in the 1990s but they aren’t coming back. It’s time to let this fantasy go.
Nonsense! I have had visions of a 90’s revival! I was in these visions! I was looking into the mirror to see a little bit clearer. Alas, what I saw was the rottenness and evil in me.
Anyway, let’s do this 90’s revival. I wanna publish zines. I want to rage against machines. I want to pierce my tongue; it doesn’t hurt, it feels fine!
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I strongly preferred Clinton over Obama in 2008 but it’s too late now. I do find it odd that the last two presidents effectively made themselves lame ducks as soon as they were re-elected (since their VP’s have no real chance of being the next standard bearer).
I’d say the 2016 election is the Republicans’ to lose (I’m not sure if they want to win yet, they surely didn’t in 2008).
But the problem continues to be that you’re not going to get a good administrator (the president’s job) if you’re selecting for a good campaigner. The skill sets very occasionally overlap (most recently Bill Clinton) but most of the time they don’t.
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“I’d say the 2016 election is the Republicans’ to lose (I’m not sure if they want to win yet, they surely didn’t in 2008).”
– The Republicans will lose the election. They don’t have a candidate to the point of discussing Romney as a possibility once again.
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I don’t think this is about nostalgia. Rather, nobody’s who is openly running has any charisma, and despite the fact they are less charismatic than the more famous members of their family, they still have more than many of the other candidates.
The 1990s and the 2000s are not far back enough in the past for people to have nostalgia for.
Besides, we are definitely in a terrible and hopeful moment we haven’t seen before, and no nostalgia driven choice will be equal to it.
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