Sure, Bill Clinton may have been a philanderer and Al Gore was drier than dust, but they were also wicked smart; and when it comes to matters of utmost importance, we want someone who doesn't have to ask his daddy's friends what to do.
Here's one small example, from a September 2 White House press release:
Nomination Sent to the Senate
David L. Lyon, of California, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Kiribati.
Now, this item may not contain matters of extreme national import, but we'd be willing to bet a cold $1k that our president can neither identify the Republic of Kiribati on a map nor define "plenipotentiary".
Yes, we know you're asking: "Why does he need to?" Well, this statement is released under the President's name, as are hundreds of releases daily, and it gives us the heebie-jeebies to know that our president is clueless about his own administration's goings-on. It may not be important when it comes to the Republic of Kiribati, but it is extremely important when it comes to things like, oh, departments overruling each other on the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or how a tax cut might impact the sagging American economy.
We prefer a president who doesn't have to trust daddy's friends to tell him these things. What if they're wrong, or totally in cahoots? Bill Clinton would have known the difference. Hell, George H.W. Bush would have known the difference.
George W. is dumb, and when it comes to our lives and the well-being of our country, we don't trust dumb.
