Time’s Joe Klein joins my call to oppose any Clinton or Bush running for president in 2008:

What’s more, I suspect there would
be innate and appropriate populist resistance to this slouch toward
monarchial democracy [if Hillary runs for president in 2008]. There is something fundamentally
un-American — and very European — about the Clintons and the Bushes
trading the office every eight years, with stale, familiar corps of
retainers, supporters and enemies. Bill Clinton was a good President.
Hillary Clinton is a good Senator. But enough already. (And that goes
for you too, Jeb.)

A Bush or Dole has been on every Republican ticket since 1976, and if Hillary is chosen by the Democrats in 2008, that would mean that Clintons would have been three of the party’s last five nominees. This is not an aristocracy — our presidential politics need fresh blood.