DBWI: Bob Ross dies from his Cancer

Hey guys, I just got back from the newly constructed Robert Ross Presidential Library, I learned that during the early 90s, Bob during his artist and television career was battling lymphoma. What would have happened if he died from cancer, surely the 2008 Presidential Election would be very different.
 
Thankfully it was caught early. Ross was private about it at first, but when even his military benefits didn’t cover his treatment, he said, “I got genuinely upset for the first time since the Air Force. I didn’t yell because I told myself I wouldn’t, but it was upsetting.” And that’s why he ran for the House in Indiana in 1994 - and he won.

He was in his second term in the Senate when the Democrats asked him to run for President. He ran on a healthcare platform, but by then he had a number of pet issues - he didn’t like the way Iraq was handled, he hated No Child Left Behind and the attacks on the arts, and he was a staunch advocate for medical marijuana and the reason it got declassified as a Schedule I drug. But his legacy is Rosscare, and I gotta say, it’s great.
 
OOC: Holy shit, I never realized Bob Ross died 3 years before I was even born. I remember watching him as a child and I never really thought about what happened to him. I guess I assumed he died sometime in the 2000s.

If the great Bobby Ross had died before he was able to become President, we surely would have a much harsher national mood than we do currently. Despite being rather aggressively liberal, Ross's cool, mellow demeanor and willingness to work with the people he disagreed with most allowed a prevention of polarization in national politics. As @Colonel Zoidberg pointed out, we also have him to thank for expedited marijuana legalization across the states. While it's still not exactly legal (for recreational purposes, anyways) at the federal level, his work in defense of the "happy little trees" for medicinal purposes definitely chilled attitudes about it in general. God, I hate to even imagine where we'd be without President Ross.
 
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