A Modest Proposal: A King and Queen for America
Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed today in the New York Times is spot on today.
The national campaign to get President Obama to emote, throw crockery at oil executives and jump up and down in fury has failed. But here’s a long-term solution: Let’s anoint a king and queen.
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How should we choose a king and queen? Frankly, we already have royalty: Hollywood celebrities. And they are well trained to emote and explode on demand. Just imagine the Nielsen ratings for an Academy Awards-type evening in which Americans would choose a royal family for the first time—live!
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What? You say that this would be un-American? It’s not who we are as a country?
Well, rage isn’t President Obama either. It’s not who he is any more than a monarchy is America.
So maybe we should just accept that we’re stuck with a presidential system—and with a ruminative and slightly boring president who tries to solve problems rather than fulminate about them.
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