Monday, July 9, 2012

Dating the Candidates

An Obama ad attacks Romney for outsourcing jobs to China and India when he worked with Bain Capital. While this may be just the usual political nonsense it does raise a real question: How does a citizen show he is prepared to be President? Certainly there are differences between the regular world and the rarefied political one. Obama's main achievement has been the murder of bin Laden; how does Romney show he is of similar stuff? Does he have to kill a national enemy? Or just order it?

The unspoken truth of the matter is that we pick a President based on appearance, acting ability and debating skills.  Reagan wasn't an aberration, he was the fulfillment of the system. We used to be so rich that it did not matter who we elected, as long as he was sane.

We now may have to be more discerning.

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