As the protagonist of the tale, imagine, if you will, a man who, as
Speaker of the House, orchestrates the impeachment of a President for
an adulterous affair with a White House aide twenty-six years his
junior while he himself is conducting an adulterous affair with a
congressional aide twenty-two years his junior, having earlier left
the first of his three wives while she was hospitalized with cancer.
Imagine a man who attributes these behaviors to "how passionately I
felt about this country." Imagine a man who, told he can't sit in a
front section of Air Force One, shuts down the government. Imagine a
man who becomes the only House Speaker ever to be disciplined for
ethics violations. Imagine a man who, in a country just staggering out
of the worst recession of the past fifty years and facing the threat
of worldwide economic collapse, proposes to hire small children to
work as janitors, mopping floors and cleaning toilets in their schools
(or their orphanages, perhaps). Imagine that man as
Commander-in-Chief. It's no stretch for him. His fantasy life is so
rich that he has already compared himself to Abraham Lincoln, Charles
de Gaulle, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and (for sheer
perseverance) Ho Chi Minh.
---SPSmith
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