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[vulgarweed]

Primary in my home state today. Gee, wonder which way it's going to go. (not!)

I had one of those dipshit 3 AM revelations:

Presidents are father figures--the Good Father or the Bad one, either way.

I am NOT psychologically ready to have a President who's only 8 years older than me!

Younger than many good friends of mine. Younger than many I've dated.

I remember the little meltdown my dad had the first time the POTUS was younger than him (Clinton). I think mine will be worse when that happens.

OK, back to my regularly-scheduled delegate-fuzzy-math-geeking.

Comments

[notlefthanded.livejournal.com]

You know, I think there's something to that. He's about the age of the old boss I hated, the guy who was such an irresponsible man-child. Of course, Obama does not seem to be either of those things, knock on wood. I wonder if that affects my opinion of him?

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

I think to me he seems an awful lot like a peer and an equal. Which is great in a friend--love to have a beer with him!--but a President? I sure as hell am not competent to be POTUS ad wouldn't want to be, same for all my friends so...it feels a little bit like realizing that some guy I used to date (one of the good exes that I'm still on decent terms with) has a good shot at the Presidency, while I still think of him as someone I played drinking games with! (Granted, there are no former Harvard Law Review presidents in my social circle. We're not talking reality here.)

Has no real bearing on where my real choices fall (I've voted for the guy three times already in the last few years, I'm fine with one more!)

The thing that political geeks always have to acknowledge is that while yes, in theory, we're choosing a public servant who is going through a lengthy job-interview process with his or her potential employers--us--there is also always the symbolic and mythic resonances, which affect us all on an emotional level, sometimes ones we don't even realize.

[quantum-witch.livejournal.com]

So is Hillary still a father figure, if she's President? *grin*

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Nope. She'd be a mother figure - and I do "feel" her as more an emotionally "plausible" On-High authority figure than Obama. Her election would not violate the sanctity of my girl!Peter-Pan complex. I wouldn't get that cold-sweat OH SHIT MY GENERATION HAS RESPONSIBILITY - DO NOT WANT! feeling. :D