Dumbest Idea for an Essay

As much as I admire Joseph Ellis, penning an essay titled "How Would Washington Have Handled Iraq?" is a fools errand. Washington was not a man of our time. He was president of a weak country in a time when Britain and France were world powers and didn't want to get involved in offending either by making alliances with the other. To say what he would do with our modern military after 9/11 facing the Axis of Evil is impossible. You can't even talk about what his personality would have been like because he didn't grow up in modern times. If he had, he might not have gone into the military. He might have become the equivalent of Donald Trump, or a sports star. Who knows?

Now, how about how George Bush would have lead the Revolutionary War?

Then there's Ellen Goodman asking "Ready For President Who Isn't a White Male?" Huh? Is that really the definitive question about the presidential choice? Who cares if the best candidate is black, white, brown, or one sex or another? Anybody who makes that the basis of his/her vote shouldn't be voting.