Fame and Power

Few days after the previous blog about Fred Thompson's qualifications for the US presidency, along came another article on this matter.

Is mainly about fame and if is a fast-track to power?

Fred Thompson's qualifications for the US presidency are more impressive than most. He's a former Senator with a good line in rock-jawed machismo. If he's this good at acting the part of a government official, it seems natural to conclude he'll be good at it in real life. Plus, his hair looks freshly shampooed and he's got great teeth.

These days, fame is not only about films and shows, but a new term of media had been improved and is being used in a different way. Currently YouTube electioneering and prime-time TV debates are a new way of doing politics, and it reassures us to know that our parliamentarians have at least made the effort to be aesthetically pleasing.

Perhaps we're naturally more cynical about the power of fame... look at Ronald Reagan! Anti-communist? Anti-Nuclear? What is that when you can be in a movie kissing famous ladies!?