High-heel shoes and an alligator hat

I don’t think that it’s too much to ask that our Presidents appear Presidential.  That’s just another thing I hate about the Bush family.  Bush I and Bush II.  Neither appeared Presidential.  Bush I was slightly better at it, but blowing chow on the Japanese Prime Minister kind of lacks the sort of Presidentiality that I’m looking for, and expecting from the Executive Officer of this nation.  I understand waking up from a dead sleep and having to blow.  Sometimes you don’t make it where you need to in time.  But unless you’re 4 years old, most people can figure out that it’s time to leave the State Dinner before going all Linda Blair on the hosting dignitary.  Not Bush.  And his son, from the point of view of decorum was a complete embarrassment, never mind his “policies”.  Even when he was at funerals he appeared like an 8th grader that had been dragged into the church.  You’d think a guy who supposedly based all of his policies on his faith would appear a little more comfortable in the house of God.  Not Bush.  Clinton had it going until Little Billy ran into the devil in the blue dress and that was the end of that.  Reagan could for the most part fake it, he was after all an actor.  I never liked the folksy bullshit act he ran, but at least it didn’t detract from the office.  With the noted exception of the “we commence bombing of Russian in 15 minutes” gaffe.  Nixon and Johnson spent a lot of time bumbling.  Kennedy appeared Presidential. 

Last night our President had to address a terrible act of violence that occured on the Army base in Fort Hood.  He handled it with honor, decorum and let us know that he too was horrified.  He’s stumbled a little in the past, although we all thought Kanye was a jackass, but for the most part, he appears Presidential.  And I like that.  I want a President that makes me proud, whether I agree with him or not.  President Obama does that.

So when I see a poll that says if Rush Limbaugh ran for President today would you vote for him, I resist the temptation to vomit on a visiting dignitary.  Although it does make me wake in fear in the middle of the night and run for the porcelain god.

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