If you were Chelsea Clinton...

Here is a scene from a couple of days ago: Secretary Clinton facilitating the handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Everyone is smiling. Pretty flowers on the table. Etc. Etc. Who knows where things will stand between them in two weeks time, but here we are.

Jump back how many years - 17 years? - to another White House image, another Clinton facilitating a handshake.

Here we have President Clinton with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin and Palestinian Liberation Organization President Yasser Arafat. Its looking to me like the Palestinians smile just a wee bit bigger than the Israelis. But that's neither here nor there. Also, lets remember that Rabin and Arafat (and Shimon Peres) won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 for the Oslo Peace Accords that were ratified by the above handshake. Pretty big deal. The whole deal, however, didn't really stick so well. But don't ask me. You'd need to start a think tank to suss out all the details.

I was always a little embarrassed by President Clinton's demeanor during this whole handshake ceremony. He'd only been in office a little while. The actual negotiations didn't really happen in his back yard. And yet he just looked so dang smug, so showy-offy, in all the photos. But that's not important. Perhaps the fact that Rabin was assassinated in 1995 by a right-wing nutbag who didn't agree with Israel's involvement in the Accords is more important.

Anyway! My point is: what if you were Chelsea Clinton? What if these were your parents? What will history make of them? Its just so, I don't know, interesting to me that we see them both do this stuff, this pinnacle of power stuff. I think its a big deal, but I'm not sure exactly why. I have to think about it for a bit longer. I'm no pundit. I just get a kick out of the two photos.

That's enough politics anyway. Whew! Lets talk about religion instead. For instance, who is the more heroic god in our pantheon - Han or Luke? I'm a dork.

I'm going to go watch Husband make cinnamon rolls. Its a beautiful day here. Buckaroo is currently napping. Though I probably jinxed it by saying that.

ciao.

p.s. I'm pretty sure I spelled everyone's names correctly. I'm pretty certain on the dates. I'm too lazy to fact-check.