I am so perturbed at the current presidential race that I can’t even ponder over it without waking up with a hangover. Months ago, I was closely following the race, and there were even a couple of candidates that I liked, but once they began dropping out like road apples on a trail drive, I gave up on these bombastic blowhards. This race is kinda like going to the circus. After watching the acrobats and lion tamer, nothing is left but the clowns.
I do have something quasi-political buzzing around my moldy skull like a wasp in a Volkswagen Beetle. Perhaps some of y’all out there might know the answer to this question and would like to ease my mind. If Hillary Clinton were to win the presidential election, I reckon she will drag her old ball-and-chain along to her new digs in D.C. So, what do we call the husband of a woman president? Since we’ve never had a female president, I don’t know if Noah Webster or anyone else ever coined a term for the male equivalent of the First Lady. Perhaps this is an opportunity for me to jump into the nation spotlight and create an appropriate title for ol’ Bill if Hillary enters the Oval Office.
I think the title “First Gentleman” would be applicable for the husband of the POTUS, but we’re talking about Bill Clinton here. “First Gentleman” fits Bill’s persona much like OJ’s leather glove. I think another title would be more fitting, like “First Lady’s Man” perhaps. “First Scoundrel” or “First Snake-in-the Grass” might be appropriate but neither sounds very diplomatic. Besides, Bill wouldn’t actually be the first scoundrel ever to live in the White House, would he?
