As if I needed another reason to dislike soon to be former President Bush, I find out he is right-handed. And if that isn’t enough, he ruined a really nice string of left-handed presidents! President Reagan, Bush (H.W.), and Clinton are/were lefties. Now either Obama or McCain will be elected and both of them are southpaws. Stupid President Bush has to go and ruin what could’ve been 32 straight years of left-handed rule (Gore was a lefty too!) We did/do pretty well with southpaws in office, so I guess I can’t hate on McCain to much now. I’ll turn it all on the odd man out here. Way to screw stuff up Bush! Damn right-handers, can’t trust them to run things correctly!
Here is a snipet of an article illustrating this;
Other than the first Mr. Bush and Mr. Clinton, the left-handed presidents everyone seems to agree on were James Garfield, Harry Truman and Gerald Ford. Some lists include Herbert Hoover, but he’s omitted from others created by left-handed advocates, perhaps because they want no part of someone on whose watch the Great Depression began.
And then there’s the case of Ronald Reagan. He wrote with his right hand, but discussion has abounded that he was switched from his natural tendencies when he was young by strict schoolteachers. It has been pointed out that he slapped Angie Dickinson with his left hand in the film “The Killers,” which is what a lefty would do. (No one thinking right would ever slap Angie Dickinson at all, actually.)
So just as in politics, Mr. Reagan apparently went from left to right as his life evolved. He shows up on some lists of left-handed presidents but not others, meaning we’ve had between five and seven of them, with much more likelihood of a left-handed White House in recent decades than before.
There’s no indication yet of organized left-handed support for Mr. McCain, but a Lefties for Obama group has a web site and slogan: “Make Obama Number 8 in ‘08″ -Gary Rotstein
Here is a link to the actual article.
2 Comments
June 13, 2008 at 8:11 am
32 years of unbroken left-handed rule would have been awesome. Had no idea that Al Gore is also left handed. Trust Bush to interrupt all that.
June 25, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Yep it was a good run for left handers. Leave it to Bush to screw it up. Stupid Jackass!