In another diary earlier today--a candidate diary, if you must know--I saw someone refer to Sen. Obama as "Mr. O." Hmm, I thought, Have we ever had an O president before? Thanks to the ever-handy dKosopedia I easily located a complete list of US Presidents and found the answer. Nope, no O presidents.
Mind the gap while we cross over to Alphabetville for a break from the candidate diary wars. Hey, let's whistle a little Mozart while we go (he wrote the Alphabet song, you know)....
A is for Adams, both of them, as well as Arthur. Geez, it's been 123 years since we had an A-list president!
B is for Buchanan and Bush and Bush. Ugh. What a bunch of losers the Bs are! Remember when Pat Buchanan tried to join this illustrious group? Sorry, Senator Biden, you really could have helped the letter B restore its good name!
Well well well, there have been more C presidents than any other letter except for H. (Well, that is if you count Cleveland twice, as his terms in office were separated by one term out). Senator Clinton would just love to push the Cs into a non-tied number one slot! Will her presidency be a stepping-stone to a Nobel Prize like Carter? Will she get to diddle an intern like that other Clinton? (Hey, I'm a feminist--it wouldn't bother me any more if she were doing it than it did when he was!). My own guess is that she can make like Coolidge and win the general election with all but 12 Southern states! (By the way, C is for cookie, and that's good enough for me.)
D D D D D...{shakes head}... The D field is strewn with the failed presidential ambitions of that Viagra addict Dole, that other poor Dole who couldn't save her party's Senate majority in 2006, and our own defender of the US Consitution, Senator Dodd.
E is for Eisenhower. It's also for Senator Edwards, who would make a great president. There's still a chance voters will double the size of the E category this year. Unless his online supporters keep flocking to other campaigns just because he placed third in two teeny tiny state primaries so far. Come on, kids, think of the alphabet! Stick with your guy.
Forgive me iF I Fail to Find Favor For Ford or Fillmore.... Fact is, I'm Fervent For Feingold.
Gee, both of our G presidents were a long, long time ago: Garfield and Grant back in the late 1800s. Something tells me the two crackpot Gs of this race--Gravel and Giuliani--won't be changing this anytime soon. Thank God (the biggest G there is).
The Hs have it! Five of them--Harding, B. Harrison, W.H. Harrison, Hayes, and Hoover--tying the five Cs for first place. Gov. Huckabee is going to try to vertically insert himself into history here. Gross (Never use "Huckabee" and "insert himself" in the same sentence)!
I will be president some day.
Jesse Jackson twice Jumped to Join the Js--Jackson, Jefferson, A. Johnson, and L.B. Johnson. Alas, that group is still only four strong.
There should have been two K presidents instead of just one. JFK certainly didn't get to serve long enough, and RFK didn't get to serve at all. Hard to believe, but I think we're still feeling the effects of RFK's assassination. Let's not ruin this category with Keyes, oK?.
L is for Love, and that's what we all feel for our one and only L president, Abe Lincoln. He set a people free and held the country together. It's not his fault the Party of Lincoln has become the Gimme Only Power party.
M is for meh--I have nothing to say about Madison, McKinley, or Monroe. The real question here is that when McCain fails to win the presidency should the tatters of his campaign take up residence here in the M category? Or in the D category where it belongs, since he is Bob Dole?
Say No to Nixon. No! Nyet! Na! Non! Nein! Nee! Não! Nope!
Would you like to buy an O? There's One available from IllinOis. Act now--this model of Senator Obama comes with built in hOpe!
P is for Ron Paul trying to join Pierce and Polk in this category. P is also for poop. It's also for Racism if you're dumb enough to believe that, as Paul supporters seem to be.
Question: Any Qs?
You know, we really need a President Richardson to offset the ugliness being imposed on the R category by Ridiculous Reagan, a man who killed thousands of AIDS patients with cold-hearted insensitivity. And so much more. The Roosevelts wouldn't mind having Governor Richardson join them, I don't think.
I'm Stunned and Saddened at the Sore Situation of the Sieve-like S category. Perhaps Governor Sebelius will Someday Save uS?
T is for President Taylor, President Taft, President Truman, President Tyler, and, um, President Grandpa Thompson. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
u will b pres sumday
Van Buren. Vancookie. Take your pick.
Wilson is one of two W presidents, but really, all honor and respect for this category goes to Washington--that other George who actually refused to be king. DC is named after him, but let's not hold that against him!
ASDF. QWERTY. WYSIWYG. IOKIYAAR. XYZ. n/t eom