In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Hi I’m Seven of Nine and I played an important (though personally tragic) part of Obama becoming President.
In the nineties I was married to a man whom many considered the “The Next Big Thing” in the Republican party.
After we got divorced his political career really heated up, and he was running for the Senate seat against Obama.
Now Jack Ryan was going to have a hard time winning, but many people felt he had a good chance, and spoke of Jack as if he was a dreamy date in high school:
George Will: Is Jack Ryan too good to be true?CHICAGO - Amid the cold world's uncertainties, there is the comfort of having one incontrovertible axiom: If something seems too good to be true, it isn't true. Something, or someone.Yes Ryan was of the “Good people beget Good people” crowd.
Then along comes Jack Ryan.
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Ryan, who keeps in moral and physical trim by going to Mass and the gym each morning, left Goldman Sachs to become a teacher at Hales Franciscan High School in the heart of the huge black community on the South Side. In an area where some schools send more young men to prison than to college, Hales Franciscan has for six consecutive years sent all its graduates -- all black boys, most from homes poor enough to qualify for the school lunch program -- to colleges, including Notre Dame, Northwestern, Georgetown and the Naval Academy.
"That," he blandly says of his career change from high finance to high school, "is what our family does." After Harvard he worked as a volunteer in a migrant workers' camp in Texas. Such stuff runs in the family.
And he did good at the schools.
Let’s let George Will continue:Actually, he favors the basic Republican agenda -- limited government, personal responsibility, strong national defense. But he is, above all, a moralist who hopes to get the state exercised about the fact that 410,000 of its children -- 270,000 of them in Chicago -- are in failing schools, as such schools are defined by the No Child Left Behind law.Yes “Saint Ryan” was going to face Obama, and maybe beat him.
What, he asks, will become of these children if they reach adulthood and "all they have is their brawn and their hands"? When he returns to walk the spotless halls of Hales Franciscan, crowds of boys embrace him, and are rewarded by being asked what their SAT scores are, and being told they are not high enough. The SAT prep course was recently canceled. For Ryan, doing something about that takes immediate precedence over campaigning.
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The story Ryan is trying to write -- doing well in his campaign, then doing good in Washington -- is too good to be true.
But what Will didn’t understand is that Ryan was too good to be true.
And that such devotion can turn to anger when it is revealed that the devoted have been played.
Lyin' RyanJack Ryan, the Illinois GOP's nominee for the seat of outgoing Sen. Pete Fitzgerald (R.-Ill.), saw his campaign implode Tuesday after the release of highly embarrassing papers from the divorce custody battle over his nine-year-old son. This came as a surprise to the two of us, despite the fact that we had heard rumors about Ryan--which in retrospect were surprisingly accurate. That's because Ryan looked both of us straight in the eyes and lied to us in an off-the-record lunch two weeks ago. At one point, we asked him point blank about the files and whether their release would be damaging. Ryan insisted emphatically that the files contained nothing untoward. And we said to ourselves later, why would he lie to us since the files were to be released in a matter of days? A campaign staffer even said to us, in Ryan's absence, that Ryan was acting against his political interests by not releasing the files. He said that they contained nothing but information on his son, whom he loves dearly and only wants to protect.Well the GOP did find a replacement, and that campaign was a joke.
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The files, it turns out, contain extremely embarrassing accusations by Ryan's ex-wife, actress Jeri Ryan, that he pressed her to have sex in front of crowds at swingers' clubs in New York City, Paris, and New Orleans--including a New York club "with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling."
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Barring the replacement of Ryan with another Republican candidate (and even then the odds of GOP victory would be very long), the public might as well get used to reading about: "U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D.-Ill.)."
But in the end the public didn’t really have to get used to reading about U.S. Senator Barack Obama, because they are soon to be getting used to reading about President Barack Obama.
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