PALLS OF IVY
Sometime in the 1980s, Yale University took control from Harvard of the mismanagement of American affairs. Gone were the Cambridge professors using a war in Vietnam as proto-Viagra and in their place came the unenhanced sexual adventures of Clarence Thomas. In fact, during that incident almost everyone involved -- appointer, appointee, major confirmers, victim, victim's defenders and victim's counter-accusers -- went to Yale.
The big difference between having one's republic unraveled by Yale graduates as opposed to Harvard alumni is that while megalomania drives each, the Harvard trained mind seems more inclined to cloak it all in macro-political terms, while Yalies are happy to settle for shear, unadorned power. Thus while Kissinger got himself geared up with treaties, invasions and assassinations, Clinton's inspirations ran more in the line of cigars. When Kissinger referred to power being the ultimate aphrodisiac he was thinking globally; Clinton probably thought he was endorsing rape.
The next time you see Al Gore on TV ask yourself just one question: would this man have permitted himself to be branded on the butt, a la Dubya, in order to become a member of the DKE fraternity? Then ask yourselves a second question: what is the inner meaning of this?
TPR has no answer but merely points out that if GWB wins, we will be ruled by the third Yalie in a row, another alumnus of that purveyor of silly rituals, secret societies and the sense that one is entitled by birth and/or test scores to get away with whatever one can.
This is a pretty weak argument for Al Gore but is the best we can think of at the moment.