Sep 10 2008
That American Dream BS
You know what I’ve noticed? There are a lot of people saying it is ridiculous that Palin could become President of the United States. Why? Because she’s a hockey mom, a small time politician, and doesn’t have the Washington pedigree so prominent in most *recent* presidents. Well then I guess all that crap you hear from Obama and every other person out there who claims that America is the land of opportunity and that the American Dream that anyone can be president really IS total BS.
You can’t have it both ways. Either everyone really is equal and worthy of sitting in the oval office if the majority approves or some people are better than others. Which is it going to be?
It is not B.S. It is and always has been completely an American ideal that anyone can be President. The debate is about what makes a good president. How can we trust Sarah Palin with Putin if she can handle thirty minutes with Tom Brokaw.
So yes, anyone can be President, but do you think George Washington was just anyone? Do you think Abraham Lincoln was just anyone? Do you think that FDR, John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan were just anyone?
Bush, maybe, but that is the difference. It is absolutely frightening to me that Sarah Palin has a 15-33% chance of being the most powerful person in the world upon a McCain election.
http://hogwash.today.com
I agree with Karl. It takes an exceptional person with a certain organic intelligence to be the leader of the wealthiest most technologically advanced democracy in the world… That’s not to say that we don’t have issues or that China, Japan, India and Western Europe don’t have a have a great thing goin’… but we have it pretty good in the e U.S.
http://waxingpoetically.today.com
http://artfromtheoutskirts.com
We tried the “let’s elect someone we’d like to have a beer with, go huntin’ n’ feeshin’ with” thing already. Yes, it’s true, anyone in this country has the potential to become president. But that doesn’t green-light you to the oval office because you are anyone. You have to earn it, the same way you have to earn a driver’s license. If you’re not responsible enough to operate a vehicle, you shouldn’t be granted a D.L. just because you’re an American. The same basic principle applies for POTUS. Or VPOTUS, as the case may be. You give Palin’s background, but you don’t give Obama’s. Mixed race child w/ a single mom, ended up graduating Magna Cum Laude from Harvard, editor of the Harvard Law Review, Constitutional Law professor, Civil Rights Attorney, three terms in the Illinois State Senate, elected to US senate in 2004, author of over 800 pieces of legislation in IL. State Senate, author, co-sponsor of over 400 pieces of legislation, responsible for a staff of 2,500 employees in an electoral campaign, and VETTED BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE to run for the highest office in the land, not tapped in a desperate plea for political purposes.
I see your point, but the crux of it compares apples to oranges.
eclecticbird,
Palin has not demonstrated to me, or very many people for that matter, that she has the critical thinking skills, temperament, judgment, and intellectual curiosity that I believe is necessary to lead our country in the 21st century global economy.
She is the governor of a state with a smaller population than St. Louis County, Missouri that has the largest per capita federal earmarks per person of any other state, and gets most of its money from the federal government. As a matter of fact, if she truly did follow through with her promise of eliminating earmarks, Alaska’s economy and infrastructure would be completely devastated.
And, while I do not believe that a formal education makes or breaks an individual, I think the fact that her bachelor’s in communication from Idaho, which took her six years to earn, combined with everything else that I previously mentioned, scares the living daylights out of me.
When I say that she is a gimmick pick, who really isn’t qualified for the job, I really believe that to be an objective viewpoint, even though I am clearly an Obama supporter. And now that every major news source (except Fox News,) including factcheck.org is pointing out the deliberate and willing deception of the McCain-Palin ticket in advertising and stump speeches while they continue to press on with the same rhetoric, I am really beginning to question John McCain’s honor.
http://hogwash.today.com
Here is the factcheck.org report:
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/mccain-palin_distorts_our_finding.html
Again, two terms as mayor dealing with 25 employees and a pittance of a budget, a town in which was left $20 million in debt upon her departure, combined with 18 months as governor of the 3rd smallest state in terms of population, with an existing surplus in terms of revenue, where she only needed 335,000 votes to claim that job, does not qualify one to have a one in three chance of being the POTUS by default. We haven’t even gone into this: Barack Obama sits on the following committees: Foreign Relations, Veteran’s Affairs, Environment and Public Works, and European Affairs. The argument for Palin is that she has foreign policy experience because Alaska is close to Russia. She’s been out of country once, to Kuwait, and had to get a passport (at 43) to do so. And we shouldn’t even be discussing the difference between the two. I realize it was a discussion about the “American Dream”, but this is the problem: We as Americans are so narcissistic that we get pissed off if our elected officials are smarter than us. I don’t know about you, but I kinda want the leader of the free world to be able to do more than shoot wolves from an airplane. I hope that the POTUS is smarter than me, and I’m a relatively smart white boy.
oh, forgot, since everyone else is including their urls…
www.therelevantrhino.today.com
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