Enter
organization. Time all but announced the unoriginality of the
idea with its cover, which was
created by going to a clip art archive and doing a global search for
“women” and “clichés.” As with
the story’s trope itself, it’s best
examined in the gray light of the
afterglow of an afterthought.
Against the 2016 onslaught,
and our own contributions to it,
let us now praise the real heroes
of this period of premature frenzy — those men and women who
have seen the light of presidential
speculation beaming in their direction and have forthrightly declared, “You can include me out.”
Last week’s award for Valor In The
Face Of People Wondering If You’ll
Run For President goes to California Gov. Jerry Brown (D), who is
not running for president:
Speaking at a Tuesday news
conference in Riverside, Calif.,
Brown scuttled speculation
about his presidential prospects
when a reporter asked if he
planned to throw his hat in the
ring for a fourth time.
“No, that’s not in the cards.
Unfortunately,” Brown said,
according to the Los Angeles
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Times. “Actually, California is
a lot more governable.”
Supporters of Brown — who
ran for the Democratic nomination in 1976, 1980 and 1992
— had hoped the popular governor would enter the 2016 race.
Brown stoked speculation by
Let us now praise the
real heroes of this period of
premature frenzy — those
men and women who have
seen the light of presidential
speculation beaming in
their direction and have
forthrightly declared, ‘You
can include me out.’”
not explicitly ruling out the possibility, although in May the
75-year-old noted that “time is
kind of running out on that.”
You are forgiven if you weren’t
aware that “Jerry Brown 2016”
was even a thing about which
people were even talking. It was
an idea that had a share of anonymous supporters, but only just
enough news coverage to warrant
an inclusion on Wikipedia’s list of