Presidential Gene Pool

American troops are in the middle of a civil war in Iraq. The Sunnis which represent an Islamic minority in Iraq are supported by countries to Iraq's west particularly Saudi Arabia. Psst, don't tell anybody but Saudi Arabia is America's great friend and ally to the Bush family. This is a highly guarded media secret. The Sunnis are the main source of the insurgency which kills most American troops.

The Shiites represent the majority Islamic group in Iraq and are supported by Iran which is to the east of Iraq. The Shiites account for a small amount of the insurgency that kills American troops.

Why then does George Bush keep pointing the finger at Iran as the source of the problems in Iraq?

This leads me to conclude that the next presidential election will be about many things of course, but there is one fundamental quality that Americans seem to feel profoundly comfortable with in terms of choosing a president.

The preferred candidate must be able to belligerently frothily lie with an uncanny unflinching reflex similar to that of a frog tossing its tongue at a mosquito. AND, he or she must do this with a down home folksy candor and demeanor that evokes the contented American cowboy, common man, or preacher.

This is no easy task.

Its takes a highly refined upbringing to do this, a billionaire's endowment with an Aunt Jemima nursemaid for the proletarian touch and a sense of majestic pomposity and entitlement reserved for the cream of the cultured, the elite's elite. Only this person can lie with the respectability that can soundly sleep in the face of 100,000 dead in tribute to corporate domination.

Its a hard thing to do for at least 4 years, and if he or she can do it well enough, then 8. Apparently there is a crash course that the requirement lacking can take to remedy any deficiencies.

Consider that the chosen candidate really only has one major agenda. This is to transfer as much of the common wealth of the American people - be it taxes, property, sons and daughters, intellectual wealth, all of the resources - transfer as much of this as possible over to the military/industrial/prison/media/war complex that America is.

Everybody else, that is the 95% of us or so, can get on with our duty to reproduce, mildly educate ourselves, chose between evolution or intelligent design, and attempt to hold on to reasonable sobriety for perhaps 55 to 80 years depending on grandma's gene pool.