Please, please, please, let me get what I want

Congratulations to Hilary Clinton, the first female president of the USA!!!

What? She’s not the president?

But it was all over the news this morning, all they talked about was how she won an election ‘against all the odds’..

…that was only a state deciding which of the democrats might go on to fight one of the republicans in NOVEMBER!!! to become president?

Oh well only 9 months to go, how exciting is this going to get????

Apparently, one of the pundits on the radio told me this morning, you don’t get to be president of the US by putting up your hand. You have to be able to campaign tirelessly to prove you are worthy. This reminded me of when I was at school and the teacher asked us to put up our hands if we knew the answer to a question. Most of us would raise our hands and wait to see if we were picked, some more nervously than others. There was always one child in the class though who had to put their arm up the highest and get off their seat and make an noise like they were having sex (though we didn’t know what that sounded like then of course). They were the most annoying in the class by a mile and it was always pleasing when they were finally chosen by a resignedly indulgent teacher and they got the answer wrong.

This is the image I have in my head when I see the likes of Hilary Clinton asking to be president. There are many infinitely more worthy than her but they just put their hands up and wait to be asked. That is not how you become the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth.

Pity.