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America’s Dynastic Disease
Posted by The Superfluous Man on Nov 24th, 2007
2007
Nov 24
The Financial Times has an interesting article examining a “dynastic disease” in American politics. The author’s evidence for this?
- “[W]e are about to hold a presidential election that may extend a sequence that gives the land of the free four years of George H.W. Bush, eight years of William Clinton, eight years of George W. Bush, son of, and the start of eight years of Hillary Clinton, wife of.”
- “Congress is littered with the spouses and sons and daughters of former congressmen who wanted to keep the position in the family. The father of Representative John Dingell of Michigan served in Congress for 22 years and then handed the job to his son in 1955.” Continue Reading »
