Abraham Lincoln we must include because of the Gettysburg Address, which is short enough to be a post, and for Lincoln’s humor and insight into human nature. Teddy Roosevelt, amateur historian and one of America’s first media celebrities, would have tried to take the blogosphere by the throat. ” T.R.’s Corner” would have been a colorful, blustering, blog. Teddy’s daughter Alice would have had one too and her lethal wit would have given Wonkette a run for her money. Richard Nixon was angry enough to be a blogger but his paranoia and insecurity about his image would have drained his blog of the real expertise and analytical brilliance Nixon had to offer on foreign affairs and politics.
John F. Kennedy would have had a blog but Ted Sorensen would have done all of the posts. And it would have ranked at the top of the Ecosystem.
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Dan tdaxp:
January 30th, 2005 at 11:38 pm
Hilarious! Thanks for the post!
TM Lutas:
January 31st, 2005 at 1:49 pm
I’ve wondered whether blogging would be a plus or minus for a political career ever since people started chanting “Lileks ’06”. It certainly would humanize you with the voters and would make pulling quotes out of contacts in a classic “gotcha” much more difficult because the context would be instantly available. An attack without a link to the actual article that would provide needed context would soon be treated as BS partisan noise. On the other hand, it’s hard to write often without being wrong, or even a legitimate jerk at least once in a great while.
Would a blogger get your vote?
mark:
January 31st, 2005 at 5:08 pm
Much thanks Dan ! Glad you liked it.
TM,
Yes, depending on the blogger in question, they could get my vote.
When you exclude the great swath of the blogosphere that consists of 14 year old girls and semi-dead blogs where the owner posts several times a year, you get an upper crust of substantive writers and thinkers.
Excluding the obvious wingnuts on the extremes there are quite a few bloggers who strike me as an intellectual cut above the average Congressmen regardless of their politics.
But good blogging and good political skills are two different things. You or I might be well informed and also think quickly on our feet but do we have the wherewithal for the drudgery and schmoozing involved in daily networking for a politician? I don’t.
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