It still pangs. Even after preparing for it more than twenty years now. But in the course of that preparation many things changed and for someone who now looks forward to the destruction of the United States as it has been known during my lifetime, the prospect of President Hillary Rodham Clinton has moved from that of a lamentable inevitability to more of a schadenfreudic priapism.
Two birds with one stone, if you'll pardon the pun. And after the precedents of Madeleine Albright and Condoleeza Rice, no one can say that women in powerful positions cannot be just as callous, incompetent, and corrupt as any man. A fact sure to be re-demonstrated during the next two years by Speaker Pelosi's inevitable fall from 'grace'.
And so, two years from today, it is to be President Hillary, well fine.
But of two things you can be certain. One, it will not be as bad as imagined. Two, it will be worse than anything that has gone before, because it always is with Presidents. No matter how many times you say to yourself "it couldn't be any worse than what we've got now", you can count on being proven wrong once again.
stephenhurleysmith
20jan2007
