US election 2008: "people get the Government they deserve ?"

The impending US election sees the potential for a second Clinton Presidency, bringing a former President back to the White House in the role of First Man / Mate / Partner / whatever.

Looking back at recent Presidencies, the United States has, in effect, been ruled by two families since 1988, or even earlier if George Bush's time as Vice President to Ronald Reagan is counted. The Bush and Clinton families have held sway since a time when the film Rain man starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise won awards and Clint Eastwood released his fourth and final Dirty Harry movie, the eight year Iraq-Iran war ended, the USS Carl Vincennes shot down an Iranian passenger aircraft and the Olympics was held in Seoul, South Korea.

This all seems a long-time ago, pre-internet that two families have held sway running the most powerful, by many metrics, nation on the planet.  The US probably deserves a fundamental change and maybe more of the same is not the way to go.  However, as one wag put it, "Democracy is the political system by which the people get the Government they deserve" - rather than need.