[x]Blackmoor Vituperative

Sunday, 2010-01-24

How to squander the presidency in one year

Filed under: Society — bblackmoor @ 12:39

While you’re at it, if you’re trying to run the most failed presidency ever, a really good idea is to campaign in the grandest terms possible, and then deliver squat. You know, talk about bending the arc of history. Invoke Martin Luther King’s dream and his struggles and even those of the slaves. Ring the big bells of generational calling. Remind voters every thirty seconds that the country badly needs “Change!”. Then get elected and turn around and continue the policies of your hated predecessor in every meaningful policy area. Only with less conviction. People will love that.

(from How to Squander the Presidency in One Year, Common Dreams)