Friday, September 03, 2010

Pulling the right strings

Pulling Strings

Boned Jello
  
T
hough he served as Prime Minister of Japan for a mere two years in the early '70's before being driven from power in Nixonian fashion in a Watergate-like scandal, for the next decade and a half Kakuei Tanaka served as Japan's shadow leader, known forever as The Kingmaker  for his uncanny ability to govern Japan from the shadows, often hand-picking who would lead the country by controlling a powerful bloc of legislators.

In modern American political history we haven't had a Tanaka-like Kingmaker, until now ... .
Why Be President When You Can Be King(maker)?
If I could stop myself, I'd be famous and rich.  Sighing but LOLing.

1 comment:

Steve In Tulsa said...

For a minute I thought they were going to say, "george Soros"

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