Broken Wing

Affirmative action

Over the years, affirmative action has been a contentious policy in the United States. On the whole, I think it has been a good policy - it attempts to right some wrongs that occurred against minorities in the past, and it creates some new wrongs against majorities in the present that satiate my apetite for sweet poetic justice. With all these benefits, it's not hard to see why affirmative action has stuck around for a while. But this time we've taken it to far.

For the second election in a row, Americans have elected a mentally challenged man to the highest office in the land. I can agree with you that, in the past, people of questionable mental capability have been under-represented on the presidential ballot. I'm just saying, maybe this is a good thing. You see, "president" is a very difficult job. Maybe Bush was a wild success as the guy who collects the shopping carts in the Rainbow Foods parking lot on Sunday mornings, and maybe he was a huge hit as the guy who passes out all the free breadsticks at Fazoli's, but this is a whole new ballgame.

It is clear that even if Bush was at one point intelligent and articulate, he is nowhere near that now. For his second term, I heard he was creating a new cabinet post for "Secretary of Wiping the Drool off my Face." I know, I know, if there's anything we've learned from There's Something about Mary, it's that watching mentally challenged people speak can be entertaining. But couldn't we just have Kerry be president, and then have him agree to appoint Bush as "Secretary of Slapstick" or "Secretary of Malapropisms?" Posted by mill1991 at November 3, 2004 10:40 AM | TrackBack