The ideal candidate

I went to a family gathering a few weeks ago, and was discussing with a cousin the subject of who would be a good presidential candidate. I told her I would like to see someone who looks like a president. Someone like Franklin D. Roosevelt. Or Eisenhower. Or JFK. For example, I like Howard Dean, but he would be tiresome to look at fairly soon, for reasons I won't go into. My favorite is Jay Rockefeller - a good, honorable senator, and you can easily see him talking to the nation in an intelligent and reassuring manner. But he wouldn't be a good candidate either, again for reasons I won't go into.

Isn't there anyone out there who would be a good or even great president, and who looks like a president? Hmm. Yes. There is. How about a real national hero, someone who stood up to the two worst criminals on the world scene, someone who knows diplomacy first hand in the most difficult of circumstances, someone who would restore the honor and respect in the world for United States, which has been destroyed over the past 5 1/2 years, and someone who has a beautiful wife who is also a national hero? And, he looks like a president. Now I don't want to tell anyone what to think, so maybe you can figure out for yourself who that ideal candidate might be.



(Look in the July archive to see where the arrow points.)