Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader believes that most of you out there have heard that Jenna Bush is getting married. You might think that with a lead-off line like that and the post title your Maximum Leader used this might be some sort of fancy-schmancy post about White House weddings or something like that…

Well you would be wrong. Dead wrong there buster!

Your Maximum Leader was thinking about Jenna Bush’s impending wedding and wondered if sister Barbara would try and hurry love to try and take advantage of a White House wedding herself. Then your Maximum Leader wondered if Chelsea Clinton ever feels a little disappointed that she didn’t get a White House wedding…

Then the idea struck… Presidents who only father daughters tend to be contraversial, polarizing, and are viewed badly by history. This is true in the modern era at least… Let’s go to the list…

Franklin D Roosevelt. Father of 6 children, 5 boys. Widely regarded as great president.
Harry S Truman. Father of 1 child, Margaret. Deeply unpopular during his presidency.
Dwight D Eisenhower. Father of 2 children, both boys. Very popular during presidency.
John F. Kennedy. Father of 3 children, 2 boys. Hard to judge. Popular during his life. Heroic in death.
Lyndon B Johnson. Father of 2 children, both girls. Deeply unpopular and polarizing during presidency.
Richard M Nixon. Father of 2 children, both girls. Widely hated during presidency.
Gerald R Ford. Father of 4 children, 3 boys. Generally disliked during presidency, but liked more than Nixon.
Jimmy Carter. Father of 4 children, 3 boys & girl. Deeply unpopular during presidency.
Ronald Reagan. Father of 4 (1 Adopted) children, 2 boys. Very popular during presidency.
George HW Bush Father of 6 children, 4 boys. Generally liked during presidency.
Bill Clinton. Father of 1 child, girl. Polarizing figure. Either loved or hated.
George W Bush Father of 2 children, both girls. Polarizing figure. Love or hated. (Mostly hated right now it would seem.)

Humm… Interesting to think about… Surely your Maximum Leader’s own preferences play into this, but there does seem to be a trend to this… Your Maximum Leader is too lazy to check to see who of the current candidates have spawned male children… But he might do so tonight.

Carry on.

UPDATE FROM YOUR MAXIMUM LEADER: Damn Skippy! Damn his Canadian uber-knowledge of all things American. Your Maxmium Leader was doing his little list above from memory. This is one of those instances where a little googling would have helped him avoid embarassment.

It turns out that our 39th President, James Earl Carter (Jr) actually has fathered four children. Three boys and one girl. Assuming Wikipedia is accurate (and there is no reason to believe it is not in this case) Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter have four kids: John William “Jack”; James Earl III “Chip”; Donnell Jeffery “Jeff”; and Amy Lynn.

So your Maximum Leader’s little pet theory is seriously compromised. At best he can now say that we should be wary of men who have only fathered daughters who seek to be President of the United States… Let us see who these people are of the current “front runners…” Republicans: Rudy - sons and daughters, Mitt - sons, John - sons and daughters. Democrats: Hillary - daughter, Barack - daughters, “the Breck Girl” - sons and daughters. Hummm…. Very interesting.