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-> ''A rapid glance at the history of the USA also suggests scepticism about the impact of individual leaders. That great country has, by general consent, probably elected to its Presidency -- the post of chief executive and (as we have been reminded recently) commander-in-chief -- [[{{Eagleland}} a greater number of ignorant dumbos than any other republic]]. It has indeed evolved a political system that makes it almost impossible to [[TallPoppySyndrome elect to the Presidency persons of visible ability and distinction]], except [[RightManInTheWrongPlace by accident and, just possibly, at moments of national crisis]]. More than this, in the USA Presidents have quite frequently had to be replaced at short notice, whether because of assassination or malfeasance or for other reasons, by Vice-Presidents, who have usually been chosen for every reason other than their leadership potential. And yet the great US ship of state has sailed on as though it made very little difference that the man on the bridge was Andrew Johnson and not Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and not [=McKinley=], [[TheWomanBehindTheMan Mrs Wilson]] and not Woodrow Wilson, Truman and not Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and not Kennedy, Ford and not Nixon, or even that [[TakeThat there was nobody in the White House at all]] -- as under Reagan.''
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->''In reverse order, our last eight presidents: [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton a hillbilly with a permanent hard-on]]; [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush an upper-class bureaucrat-twit]]; [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan an actor-imbecile]]; [[UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter a born-again Christian peanut farmer]]; [[UsefulNotes/GeraldFord an unelected college football lineman]]; [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon a paranoid moral dwarf]]; [[UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson a vulgar cowboy criminal]]; and [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy a mediocre playboy sex fiend]].
-->--'''Creator/GeorgeCarlin'''
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-> ''A rapid glance at the history of the USA also suggests scepticism about the impact of individual leaders. That great country has, by general consent, probably elected to its Presidency -- the post of chief executive and (as we have been reminded recently) commander-in-chief -- [[{{Eagleland}} a greater number of ignorant dumbos than any other republic]]. It has indeed evolved a political system that makes it almost impossible to [[TallPoppySyndrome elect to the Presidency persons of visible ability and distinction]], except [[RightManInTheWrongPlace by accident and, just possibly, at moments of national crisis]]. More than this, in the USA Presidents have quite frequently had to be replaced at short notice, whether because of assassination or malfeasance or for other reasons, by Vice-Presidents, who have usually been chosen for every reason other than their leadership potential. And yet the great US ship of state has sailed on as though it made very little difference that the man on the bridge was Andrew Johnson and not Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and not McKinley, [[TheWomanBehindTheMan Mrs Wilson]] and not Woodrow Wilson, Truman and not Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and not Kennedy, Ford and not Nixon, or even that [[TakeThat there was nobody in the White House at all]] -- as under Reagan.''
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-> ''A rapid glance at the history of the USA also suggests scepticism about the impact of individual leaders. That great country has, by general consent, probably elected to its Presidency -- the post of chief executive and (as we have been reminded recently) commander-in-chief -- [[{{Eagleland}} a greater number of ignorant dumbos than any other republic]]. It has indeed evolved a political system that makes it almost impossible to [[TallPoppySyndrome elect to the Presidency persons of visible ability and distinction]], except [[RightManInTheWrongPlace by accident and, just possibly, at moments of national crisis]]. More than this, in the USA Presidents have quite frequently had to be replaced at short notice, whether because of assassination or malfeasance or for other reasons, by Vice-Presidents, who have usually been chosen for every reason other than their leadership potential. And yet the great US ship of state has sailed on as though it made very little difference that the man on the bridge was Andrew Johnson and not Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and not McKinley, [=McKinley=], [[TheWomanBehindTheMan Mrs Wilson]] and not Woodrow Wilson, Truman and not Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and not Kennedy, Ford and not Nixon, or even that [[TakeThat there was nobody in the White House at all]] -- as under Reagan.''
