By Phil Riske | Managing Editor
We should take seriously the oft-quoted statement anyone can become the president of the United States. In many ways that’s true.
In 2008, we elected as president an unknown black politician, who admitted smoking pot as a kid. Four years later, we reelected him.
The leading Democrat candidate for the next president is a former First Lady, who reportedly threw a lamp at the president of the United States when he copped to the Lewinsky relationship.
Close behind in the Democrat polls is an avowed socialist.
The leading Republican candidate is a brash, sometimes crude non-politician.
Obama’s election and reelection put and kept a black man in the White House, while many thought America would never elected a black as president.
Should Hillary Clinton be elected, those who say a woman will never be elected president will have to accept a new chapter in United States history.
Not since the election of General Dwight Eisenhower has a political neophyte become the country’s chief executive.
In the past eight years we had and now continue to have the opportunity to move the country in unique and historic directions: Obama broke the racial barrier; Clinton would break the gender barrier; Sanders would break the two-party system barrier, and Trump would certainly bolster the belief anyone can become president.
All this is quite something, don’t you think?
