Hillary: a hawkish grandmother in Wall Street's pocket

And probably our next president. I prefer Bernie but I'll vote for Hillary and the straight Democratic ticket. I went to Berkeley and the Republican slate is too full of belligerent ignorance for me. However, they do provide an amusing theater of the absurd loosely based on Shakespeare's “Much ado about nothing”. Top billing goes to a guy who alternates between MacBeth and Iago. There is an Othello and of course a Lady MacBeth, a Florida governor who plays Hamlet and a New Jersey governor who makes a credible Falstaff. The stage is full of unimportant roles and Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are dispatched early. One guy, who was born in Calgary, has stumbled in from a Samuel Beckett play. Really, it's all in good fun. This is what you get in an era of second and third raters. Their limitations are boundless. We've had 44 presidents and only Washington, Lincoln and FDR have been deemed great. It'll be over in November and then we can go back to watching reality television (Bowling for Fish sounds exciting). Speaking of television, there was a cartoon in the New Yorker during the Nixon years showing a middle aged matron in her chair watching the news and saying wistfully: “I wish Gene Kelly would run for something”.