1968 - Drunken AWOL cheerleader stumbles to Texas and proceeds to bankrupt a series of business ventures eventually he is rewarded with the Governorship.

2008 - Brain damaged fool has been "selected" to the highest office in the land by chickenhawk cheerleaders and drunks.

OOPs I forgot it was supposed to be funny.

"What happened to our innocence?" Love does not make the world go round, it is money -- especially when taling about politics and power. That is why I posted the "$" symbol.

My son needed me and I could not finish posting my comment, so I typed in the "$"; sorry about that.

At least I found the "z" funnny...

We let the dopers and the party-till-you-drop folks take over running the country. Oh ya, I forgot the tree-huggers.

And most importantly, too many took Gordon Gekko's "Greed is good" speech to heart.

MCC,

This is really good!

Great first submission!

Now that you caught the bug, keep on posting!

Peace and Blessings!

Interesting discussion, Mr. CC. Yesterday on KPFA's "Against the Grain," Yale scholar Emmanuel Wallerstein opined that 1968 was the apex of U.S. hegemony.

http://www.againstthegrain.org/

That was about the time that the neocons started up. Spadecaller's $ is appropriate because Wallerstein says Capitalism is doomed and is a big reason for U.S. decline. Capitalism uses stuff up, and there's only so much, so what do you do when your resources are gone? What do you do after you've proven not once but twice (Vietnam and Iraq/Afghanistan) that the world's most powerful military can be defeated?

Thanks Mr. Coffee Cake for your contribution of this post .

How very true. A sad statement on how far this country has fallen.

Bush would not had been elected in 1968 he would have been ridiculed for the putz he is.