| "If Obama Had Won the Election... A Fantasy" |
As the country, and the whole world gears up for the
inauguration of President-elect John McCain, I stop to have a fantasy.
What if Barack Obama had won the election? How would things have been
different?
With McCain's Cabinet all but in place (Secretary
of State Jeb Bush, Secretary of Defense Mitt Romney, Secretary of Health and Human Services Chuck Norris... well, you know the rest) I got to
thinking what an Obama Cabinet would have looked like?
Would
he have dared to invite Hillary Clinton to join his team. Surely not a
high-profile post, but maybe something like Secretary of Agriculture.
I'm sure he would have asked the Governor of his home state to come to
D.C. Secretary of Commerce Blagojevich... I like the sound of that.
He probably would have tapped John Kerry to head up Defense and it's a
no-brainer that the new Secretary of State would be either Colin Powell
or Bill Ayers.
And what would Obama be promising? Closing down
Guantanamo? More money for bailouts? A bill to have Alaska secede
from the Union?
Well, it's all a fantasy. Who were we to think that a capable African
American could win a national election? Sure he won California and New
York... but as big as those states are they don't an election make.
Obama would have to have won Pennsylvania, Ohio, a couple of western
states, at least one of the Carolinas, Indiana, and Minnesota to even
have a chance. It just wasn't to be. Maybe next time.
Hold on............
Wait a second............
The news is just coming in. I'm sure you're glued to your TV set, as
I am. John McCain just announced that due to health concerns he will
not be taking the oath of office. Wow! What an incredible event. The
swearing in of the new President will take place on Tuesday January 20, 2009... but it
won't be John McCain.
Well, I'm sure I'm speaking for us all when I
say that we wish President-elect Palin all the best. She's really
blossomed in the past few months. She's proven to us all that she's
more than equipped to take on the job of the leader of the free world.
Change is certainly coming. When we wake on Tuesday morning, we can
all heave a deep sigh of relief. President Palin will see us through
these troubled time. She just announced that she will ask Mike
Huckabee to be her Vice President. With him at her side, I can't see
any problem that they won't be able to handle. I guess it's time to
stop living in a fantasy world. It's time to stop speculating what
would have happened if...
Barack Obama had won the election.
Steve Rudnick
1/17/2009
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