WHY BEER BUDDIES SHOULDN'T RUN COUNTRIES

Short post today, headache. With the week of bad financial news cascading behind the veneer of much ado about 4 diamond hookers, Two things have become abundantly clear to LOST: 1. Biff the sadistic didn't cause all of our economic ills - these have been in the making for some time in many cases. But, notwithstanding 1, 2. Biff the Sadistic is the wrong guy to have "in charge" in a time of crisis. We've seen it with 9/11 - would somebody else not on a month long vacation and with an unused terror czar have prevented it? We'll never know. Would somebody else have caught bin Laden without pursuing the shiny of Iraq dangled in front of him by frothing neo-cons - eager to exorcise old ghosts of their grandparents' Holocaust experience? Would somebody else have marshalled more resources to New Orleans to mitigate Katrina damages, or at least done more to accelerate repairs there? Have reacted with something other than "why does this stuff always happen when I'm relaxing?" Would somebody else have made jokes in public about not finding the very horrific weapons we were assured existed - which were the crux of why Iraq was invaded? Would somebody else make up crank songs about pardoning felons, or rogue vice presidents who ignore subpoenas and bury/shred/deny the existence of documents? A multiplicity of "yesses." You might let the neighborhood Biff watch your mastiff while you go out of town for an overnight. But you wouldn't leave Biff in charge of your infant. And while you might let Biff play with your trainset - when he's broken it - oh, I mean when it breaks, neither Biff nor his drunken buddies are the ones you want to fix it, either.