The Manchurian Candidates

There was a time in this presidential race when each and everyone of us had candidates that they liked. There were truckloads of them up there debating, berating, and masturbating...especially the debates at the Reagan Library. Now we are basically down to three. And who are they? Do they really have any connection to us poor (and getting poorer) folks?

Did they live those formative years like you and me in that America we all know and love? Did they live those events that impacted the lives of you and me? Why is it that all of our recent Presidents seem to emerge from the Naval Academy, Harvard, or Yale.....Especially Yale...and that nefarious, secretive, "Skull and Bones", which, of course, doesn't exist!!

Our Naval Academy guy, John McCain, from a military family, was a POW during some of the most turbulent times in American history. I'm sure he had an up-front view of skulls and bones! Was he being reprogrammed while some of our leaders were being assassinated, something of which he would have had no knowledge? But we would! And even if he wasn't, what kind of damage does that do to a person? Can we relate to it while we were back here protesting that war? Do we really want to trust this country to a person with that background?

Our Harvard guy, Barack Obama, was, of course, endorsed by a Harvard guy whose state Senator Clinton won. What's Harvard's version of "Skull and Bones"? And his niece, Carolyn, seems to think Barack is some kind of JFK reincarnated. I have to admit, that charisma is there!! But this guy, born to a Kenyan national, raised in Indonesia and Hawaii (not really a lower-48 perspective) and then spends the rest of his time in a black Chicago church trying to absorb the angst of the African-Americans whose roots, unlike his, are set in American slavery. However, he apparently did not hear much of Reverend Wright's often justified vitriol. If he wasn't lying, then he must have done what most Christians do during sermons...he slept! Do we really want to trust this country to a person with that background?

Finally, our Yale gal, Hillary Clinton. Do they allow women in "Skull and Bones"? Or did she have to rely on her husband and the Bushes for presidential osmosis? She spent eight years in fortress Clinton as the White House came under considerable personal, as well as political, assault from Republicans and others who hated people who were, at that time at least, Washington, DC, outsiders. Most of her presidential experience was clearly osmotic during this time. Did she absorb what we need? Do we really want to trust this country to a person with that background?

From a cast of thousands, the American people are left to choose from three of the most skewed personalities in the race. God help us, lest we end up nothing more than skulls and bones!