Bill Cosby Would Be a Better President

I've contended in prior posts that our current president is extremely dangerous because he has no significant life experience with which to have become prepared for the office.

Yes, he's old enough. He might have been born in the US, but we're still not sure, because he's never released a certified copy of a state birth certificate from a US state.

I've also contended, not alone, that Wonderboy was elected primarily by a margin of guilty, wealthy white voters who didn't take his campaign promises of wealth redistribution seriously, but felt good voting for a respectable, educated and well-spoken black.

As I watch our First Rookie mess up energy, the auto sector, health care, the value of the dollar and our deficit, I can't help thinking that there was a much, much better black man for the job.

Bill Cosby.

Yes, I really mean it. Bill Cosby.

There are many reasons why I honestly would have seriously considered voting for Cosby, rather than even McCain last fall.

First, Cosby has had nothing, if not plenty of real world experience and accomplishments. He was a hugely successful standup comic before the color line was dissolved. Everyone loved Cosby. He was brilliant.

He went on to co-star in "I Spy," in the mid-1960s. His was probably the first network television series to so feature a black. Later, he spun off his "Fat Albert" character into a children's cartoon program.

Cosby did various movie roles, but really became mainstream in the 1980s when he conceived of the "The Cosby Show" featuring himself as Dr. Heathcliffe Huxtable.

Even that, however, wasn't his zenith, in my opinion. It was in 1992 that Cosby tried to buy NBC. At about that time, Cosby began to speak out more forcefully against 'ebonics,' the so-called 'black english,' and for blacks to be responsible for behaving not as victims in society.

I can't conceive of Cosby engaging in such empty, meaningless rhetoric while ramming society-changing legislation through Congress.

Cosby, far more than Wonderboy, has relevant life experience in areas that connect him to the electorate. He's been a creative entertainer and businessman. He's excelled in many pursuits and crossed/broke the race barrier long ago.

Does Cosby have conservative values and principles? Probably the former, but less so the latter. Still, as a black liberal, he'd be a much better choice than our current failure in the Oval Office.

If we were going to elect a celebrity black president, why shouldn't we have gone for the real thing? Someone who accomplished so much on his own, rather than as a privileged, coddled minority?

Our country would be so much better off with a president, irrespective of color, who had a visceral appreciation for hard work, self-made, honest success, and a proven ability to understand and connect with the American populace.