Am I crazy, or have we been here before?

We have an incumbent President who isn't particularly popular with his base and a challenger who is a young, hip, relative newcomer on the national stage.  The country doesn't really know him or his politics but he looks good and gives a helluva speech.  His wife is equally well educated and experienced and a vote for him could be considered a "two for one" deal.  Unfortunately she is given to the occasional snarky comment that leads some to suspect that she is the true ideologue of the couple and that her ideals aren't necessarily in keeping with that of the country at large.

Haven't I already seen this movie?  Only, last time it starred Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn and the remake is starring Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith.

The dialog is slightly better but the plot is just as bad.

Bill Clinton campaigned back in '92 as the second coming of Ronald Reagan.  Even I was impressed and considered voting for him, as I couldn't stand Bush #41.  But I heard the voices coming out of Arkansas, warning that he was not as he seemed.  He earned his nickname, Slick Willie, they said.  Don't believe a word he says, they warned.  But the country ignored those who knew the man and we made him President.

I know there are people who think it all worked out wonderfully, that the 90s were a golden age and in one respect, I think they're right.  But the 90s were a golden age because of the fall of the Soviet Union, the reunification of Germany, the Papacy of John Paul II, the advent of the internet and an rocket economy fueled  by Apple, Microsoft and the technology industries.  The good things about the 90s had nothing to do with politics. 

The 90s political scene brought us Travelgate, Whitewater, Newt Gingrich, cattle futures, a dark and dirty attempt to take over the health care system, NAFTA, Ross Perot, Kosovo, Somalia, serial infidelity, Paula Jones, unnatural acts with cigars, Monica, oral sex on the nightly news, Kenneth Starr, sexual harassment, pathological liars, impeachment and an endless stream of escalating terrorist attacks leading finally to a smoking hole in lower Manhattan. 

Think of how great the 90s would've been with anyone else in the oval office.

And now you can't re-elect the Golden Boy of the Golden Age, but his snarky wife wants her turn and she won't go away til she gets it!

I can see it now; the year is 2024 and Michelle Obama is teary eyed in a diner in New Hampshire, telling the crowd that of course, she has always  been proud of her country and as soon as she's elected she'll change it.