I was reading through this article and flashed on the old (but long running and highly successful) prime time soap opera, Dallas. For those of you too young to remember the show, let me give you some background on why I flashed on it.

One of the principal characters was named Bobby and Bobby was married to Pam. Real life Bobby was tired of doing the show and wanted out, so the producers had him killed in a car accident in a season finale one year.

The next year the show went in the tank for ratings without Bobby. So one of the show's other main stars and the producers prevail on Bobby to come back, but they keep it a big secret. In the finale for the "in the tank" season, they have Pam wake up one morning. She goes in the bathroom and there's Bobby coming out of the shower. So, the "in the tank" season becomes Pam's dream/nightmare and the show picks up from where the story line was at the season Bobby died.

So, are we going to keep having "dream sequences" every time we change Presidents? Clinton changed the policies of Reagan and Bush by Executive Order. Bush 43 changed the policies of Clinton by Executive Order. Now Obama is getting ready to change the policies of Bush.

To a certain degree, some of this is expected. But wouldn't it be nice if we had policies that stayed constant from administration to administration because they were the best policies to have and we were just looking for the best people to execute them?

Just a thought.

Here's the link to the article.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/11/09-0