Thoughts
At 4:00 am this morning, I woke up in a cold sweat. I remember I had been dreaming about, of all things, Sarah Palin as President of the United States of America. To me that is more of a nightmare than a dream.
In the dream, Palin becomes Vice-President because McCain needs a gimmick to get the advantage in the Presidential Election. He knows that Obama has beaten and, later, declines taking Clinton as his running mate. McCain knows that many women are angry about the disrespect shown to Clinton so he decides the gimmick is having a woman on his ticket. He chooses an unknown Governor from Alaska that he considers as a ”safe” pick. She will be his “front” in his day-to-day campaigning and will take the limelight and political heat off of himself. After the election, she will take the “normal” role as a “do-nothing” Vice-President.
Well, that does not happen. After the election win, Palin will not be lost in the background. She starts developing her own voice and it is upsetting to the President and his supporters.
Shortly after the election; the President gets sick (due to his advance age and medical history) and summons Palin to his bed. He tells her that she will NOT be President if he dies and wants her to promise that she will resign if he dies. She declines his offer. The president dies and Palin becomes President of the United States of America.
Now, what does that dream (excuse me - nightmare) remind you of?
Of course! The one season television series Commander in Chief. Put Sarah Palin in the character of Mackenzie Allen and you have the story.
After waking up from this nightmare, I started thinking (remember this is 4:00 am in the morning) that with the very long winters in Alaska and the long-long nights that go along with those winters, what do people do? Of course, watch television. Now, even Sarah Palin has to take time from killing animals and watch a little television while eating moose burgers and drinking caribou blood shakes. Just, maybe, Sarah Palin got ideas from that show. Who really knows?
Now, waking up a little more from the nightmare, I decided that there are two basic things wrong with this Sarah Palin Plan: she is not able to fit the role of Mackenzie Allen as Mackenzie Allen is an intellectual and Palin is not! The next thing is the series was canceled after only 18 episodes-less than one year. Luckily, she could not have learned too many tricks!
Now, I have concluded that if this nightmare was to come true it would be a living hell that none of us would survive as it is harder to cancel a real President than a television series.
I, cautiously, decided to say a quick prayer that the American people would, in the end, come to their senses. Sometime after that prayer I fell back to sleep to continue the exploration of the “dark spaces” of my mind.
Sometimes it just doesn’t pay to sleep!
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