Considering that Benazir Bhutto's chief qualification for her position in the PPP was that her father was Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, you're probably a little late to the party if you think that nepotism might reflect poorly on the PPP.
Also, a word about the invocation of the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton reign. Yes, the names make a nice little pattern, but I think it's quite clear that the Bush/Bush part is a much larger problem than the Clinton/Clinton part would be. Frankly, it's a little lazy to treat these pairings as equivalent. In one case, a man who had failed at everything in life rose to power solely on the basis of his family's connections. In HRC's case, yes, it's unlikely she would've come this far on her own (just as it's highly unlikely that any one individual could be so close to becoming President), but by all accounts, she was a smart, passionate and disciplined young adult, and whatever you think of her views today as compared to the other Democrats in the race, she remains an intelligent and competent legislator who, if elected as President, would hardly come close to doing the damage that Bush II has done. All dynasties, in short, are not equal.
The other aspect of American political dynasties that gets lost when people talk Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton is that -- again, notwithstanding the nice little pattern in the names -- dynasties have always been a part of American political life. That doesn't make them desirable per se, but the election of HRC would hardly be the end of the republic.
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