Barack and Hillary - personoids incapable of normal responses

an interesting perspective from barbara ehrenreich...

Trying to say nothing to offend, [Hillary] ends up saying nothing to inspire or even inform, and Obama, though still far more engaged and human-like, risks ending up with another Ambien candidacy.

Part of the problem is structural.We make our presidential candidates campaign for at least a year at a stretch. Take a normal person and subject him or her to month after month of trail mix and chicken Caesars, sleep deprivation, and the need to be "on," smiling and handshaking, 16 hours a day. No solitary moments of reflection, no walks in the park, no escape into thrillers. What do you get after a few months of this? A golem, the artificial, man-like creature of Kabalistic lore, a personoid incapable of normal responses.

So yes, America is ready for a black or a female president. Just be sure to wake us up when it happens.

it's very likely that neither one of them are getting my vote anyway and, just to be annoyingly repetitive, NOBODY'S getting my vote until he or she starts stepping up to our constitutional crisis...

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