Shark Jumping Anyone?

While Senator Clinton has made it known for awhile that she plans on being President one day, I've been skeptical of her ability to serve the United States in this capacity for a number of reasons. As pathetic as it may sound, her un-Presidential smirks during Bush's State of the Union Addresses were what initially tipped me off to this. The smirk was in response to President Bush making a joke about him and former President Clinton being his father's two favorite baby boomers. Regardless of what anyone thinks of any U.S. President in history, I believe they all deserve a certain level of respect. After all, they are our elected leaders (althougth some may argue that point). If they aren't worthy of this, then logically no one is. In doing this, I believe she not only showed contempt for this highest of offices, but opened the door for anyone to treat her the same way should she someday attain the same position.

Her inability was further shown when she recalled the sniper fire that came her way when landing in Bosnia. Video shown of the event proved this to be untrue.

As embarrassing as these events may or may not have been, I believe Senator Clinton's political career jumped the shark with her recent comments of why she is staying in the race. In referring to her husbands campaign in 1992, she referrenced the fact that he didn't wrap up the nomination until the California primary in June of that year. Seeing how the primary schedule in 2008 is much different than when her husband initially ran, this is obviously a straw man arguement. Next, she recalled the tragic assasination of Senator Robert Kennedy in 1968 which led to Humphrey's nomination. I'd put this right up there with teamates discussing their pitcher's no-hitter or wear shoes into a Japanese home.

For those of you who don't know, the term "Jumping the Shark" is generally used when something special has lost its credibility. It refers to an episode of Happy Days in which Fonzie puts on his leather jacket while water skiing, and jumps over a shark.

It could certainly be argued that I'm being too hard on the Senator for New York, but the desperation behind her justification of the statements I think put an end to any serious political aspirations she has.

For the record, I hold her in the highest respect. All of my criticisms of her are relative to her goals. I say this as someone who is on the other side of many of her opinions. At the very least, she is worthy of respect. Regardless of whether or not she is able to give it.