|
Odd
Appointment Tales Now and then peculiar, or odd, or just interesting nominations occur that may or may not have any importance in the greater scheme of things. This is a compilation of some of those.
Updated Sunday, February 03, 2008 08:00 PM
|
||||
|
Nuisance Spouses-pre-President Appointments Hillary Clinton obviously felt some compulsion to define Bill as a roving Ambassador if she is elected President. It kills the fun of thinking of the President as First Gentleman selecting china and silver for state dinners. Who sleeps in the President's bedroom and who is in the First Lady's - whoops - the First Gentleman's suite in the White House - Ambassador Clinton, of course! If there is a sign of courage in this it is Hillary's simultaneous (duplicitous) effort to get him out of the House and doing his thing (damage) out of site Ambassadoring and whatever else remotely. On the serious side, if one can possibly be conceived in all this - rarely does a Presidential candidate make an appointment before elected - it might even be illegal - but defining - and a sure target for attack in a campaign. 4-22-07 |
Moving on: Rove goes over the Side Karl Rove is being touted as some sort of spectacular being who is unique in the history of the United States Presidency. History shows these side-kicks of President's are lost in history, and rarely are found as more than footnotes, and seldom is that so. Every President has one or more of them! Rove is no exception and we are spending more time on this departure than is appropriate. Rove is given credit for the mean bloodletting of the two major Bush elections, but that is a trademark of the Conservative Movement and the Conservative Right - they have operated the same for 50 years - and long before Rove. That is not to suggest Rove had any decency in the way he used his power - but he didn't invent it. In a broader sense, these sorts of side kicks never go away, they hang around the President's they served "until death do them part" - or jail do them part - which has happened more than once. This particular role around powerful executives, kings, queens, corporate bosses, are always miserable people - or they get miserable when they start wielding the boss' power. In terms of Presidential Appointments, they are high ranking appointments. A significant number of them over the years have ended up in jail or at least in scandals. Dwight Eisenhower's man almost went to jail for misuse of power, Truman's for corruption, Lyndon Johnson's for illicit sexual solicitation in a YMCA near the White House - it is a problem of little people who come into too much power. August 15 2007 |
. |
||
. .