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Clearly, I live here and you don't. :roll:
Um, I think I want a job where I get to say that.
Nah, they won't be able to get here because all the airlines will stop flying due to high oil prices. Patience. . . .;-)
Back to the point here....
I am personally so sick of the experience card being played - Bush surrounded himself with some of the most experienced, supposedly bright men and women and many of us would be hard pressed to find a time where there has been such dismal incompetence and failure on so many fronts.
I am personally so sick of the experience card being played - Bush surrounded himself with some of the most experienced, supposedly bright men and women and many of us would be hard pressed to find a time where there has been such dismal incompetence and failure on so many fronts.
...and Ronald Reagan's political experience consisted of 8 years as governor (unless you count his experience as president of the Screen Actors Guild.)
Not sure I follow what you are saying???
Reagan is perceived as a great American President........
Interesting take on Palin/McCain from the conservative point of view:
Norm Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
I am troubled by it, not the least because of the way it was done — last minute, impulsive, with the presidential candidate barely knowing his choice and without an extensive vetting done well in advance. The ethical issue is also troublesome, just from what we know on the record. Gov. Palin is by all accounts honest when it comes to money and taxpayer dollars, but either she or her close subordinates used government power to try to settle a personal vendetta — if she did not do it, but her subordinate did (from the audio tape on record), she clearly should have fired him and did not. Given the Patriot Act, the enhanced surveillance and other powers being exercised by the federal government, having someone willing to use or tolerate the use of the power of the state for personal vengeance is pretty unsettling.
If you want to read the entire document, go to www.politico.com and click on the 100 Notables on Palin.
Some of it pretty much what you would expect depending on the point of view; this one I found interesting because it is from a ultra conservative entity and because it speaks to a different isue than what I've seen in most of the material.
Norm Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
I am troubled by it, not the least because of the way it was done — last minute, impulsive, with the presidential candidate barely knowing his choice and without an extensive vetting done well in advance. The ethical issue is also troublesome, just from what we know on the record. Gov. Palin is by all accounts honest when it comes to money and taxpayer dollars, but either she or her close subordinates used government power to try to settle a personal vendetta — if she did not do it, but her subordinate did (from the audio tape on record), she clearly should have fired him and did not. Given the Patriot Act, the enhanced surveillance and other powers being exercised by the federal government, having someone willing to use or tolerate the use of the power of the state for personal vengeance is pretty unsettling.
If you want to read the entire document, go to www.politico.com and click on the 100 Notables on Palin.
Some of it pretty much what you would expect depending on the point of view; this one I found interesting because it is from a ultra conservative entity and because it speaks to a different isue than what I've seen in most of the material.
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Once again I raise my challenge for somebody to list three things of any significance that Obama has done. Getting elected to the Senate doesn't count nor does the nomination. What has he done for anybody that he has served in the Senate. Three things? Anybody?
Didn't think so...
Only that folks can whine about inexperience on either side for only so long. We have a lot of former Governors (who were only former governors) end up in the White House, and a lot of Representatives/
Senators. The only people we've had with real "experience" in the Oval Office are the former VPs--Bush, Sr., Ford, Johnson...
George Washington was a general, for Pete's sake.
I can't believe I'm saying this (I'll deny it later) but perhaps the best we can do is put a good leader in the office--someone who knows how to find the right people to put around himself/herself and who knows how to delegate authority. Don't you think that's what the early presidents did, before they could pick up the phone and make a call or send an email? The entrusted certain other leaders under them with responsibilities.
