All These Presidents, and Nary a Female

    Here we are in 2024. Still holding down the fort as the world's main superpower, and we have never had a female elected to the highest office. Too bad for us, really. I think that women in power could do the United States and the world some more good. Or better, as the grammar fairy wants me to write. I do not mean Hillary Clinton, per se, but others would be a nice change of pace.

    Other major countries have had women presidents, prime ministers, and chancellors. Great Britain had Margaret Thatcher, Germany had Angela Merkel, even Pakistan had Benazir Bhutto. India had Indira Gandhi. Smaller countries have had women, like Scandinavia with Finland or Sweden, perhaps. New Zealand had a pregnant prime minister. She has since stepped down. 

    Back to our grand old country. We are celebrating forty-five, forty-six presidents. All of them male. Geraldine Ferraro was nominated as a vice-presidential candidate way back when I was young teenager in the 1980s, but her main ticket guy Walter Mondale lost in one of the biggest routs of all time. A former VP of Jimmy Carter, what do you expect? In hindsight it is pretty clear. 

    We do not have many good women prospects for presidents! Or many people of any gender, for that matter. The current contestants are awful and awfuler. 

    Men, men, men. Old, stupid, forgetful, asinine, law-breaking, classified document hoarding, did I already say stupid? Pig-headed, boastful, lying, no-good, deceitful, braggadocious--to wit: not so good.

    But, we can hope that things will change. 

    We may get a woman in the Oval Office someday. Then again, we may have an all out World War III.

    Be careful what you wish for.