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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whatever political leanings OP has, I agree with the general point. It does seem that between the Bushes and the Clintons, we have had a political dynasty for most of the last 30+ years.

Bushes and Clintons (and Kennedys and Romneys to a degree) have had a place in every government level, and it just seems icky and un-American to concentrate power in the same few names over and over again.
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This is a stretch, PP. Mitt served a single term as governor of Massachusetts. His father served, what, a couple of terms in Michigan? The only presidential dynasty in recent memory is the Bush family.

The Clintons aren't a multiple-generation case and so aren't a dynasty in the strictest sense. If Chelsea runs for office, well....[/quote]

I was using dynasty in the loose sense of the word.

1982-1990-Reagan [b]Bush[/b]
1990-1994-[b]Bush[/b]-Quayle
1994-2002-[b]Clinton[/b]-Gore ([b]JEB [/b]as a gov)
2002-2010-Bush-Cheney (with [b]HRC [/b]in the senate, [b]Jeb[/b] as a gov)
2010-Obama (With [b]HRC[/b] in the cabinet till 2013)
2016 election--Bush, Clinton again as names in the running.

I don't think it is healthy to have the same names, same families, over and over again in our politics.
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I'm pretty damn happy FDR was here to fix the nation.  [/quote]

And there was over 25 years in between each of these presidencies! I tis not the same as having someone on the WH with the same last name one for decades at a time. Look, I like the Kennedy's. I even liked Ted, as a senator. But I would be looking sideways even at them if we had a Kennedy in the White House and the senate and the cabinet for the better part of 30 years.

I am not saying HRC or JEB shouldn't be allowed to run or that they are unqualified. But they are representative of the general dissatisfaction people with politics as usual and an overall fatigue. I hate Trump, I am a super liberal anarchist, hence  Bernie supporter. But the conservatives have the balls, some of them at least, to back the radical candidate. The democrats are too scared to shake things up and believe the only way to beat Trump is total back on the establishment. I think this is wrong.[/quote]

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