I count John Scalzi among my favorite writers, and while the more literary types will look down their nose at genre fiction, the man can write a novel full of big ideas, with thematic overtones that will inspire you to thought, while cranking out memorable characters that can make you laugh and cry over the course of a single work. He’s no slouch on his blog, either.
Today, he has a great post regarding political experience, in which he asks,
Likewise, of course, if Hillary Clinton really believed her “experience counts” mantra, she needs to explain why she voted for her husband over George HW Bush back in ‘92. Bush, after all, had a huge amount of experience on the national political level (including, of course, four years as president), while Bill Clinton had none, save for losing a House election in 1974.
I have a picture that I save just for these special occasions, and while it’s not exactly the thing you’d associate with intelligent political discourse, those that know me will say that I never gave much of a damn about proper debate and that my trucking it out for the whole world to see is about par for the course:
This, really, is Scalzi’s appeal. The man is a smartass, which doesn’t carry a lot of weight with me. That he’s a thoughtful and well-informed smartass does.
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