Dumba** for President!
 

How many here are tied of the onslaught against "academia" and "intellectuals" in the right-wing media?

I, for one don't see how gauging candidates by their comparability to our neighbors can lead to anything good. Many of my neighbors are white-trash losers. I wouldn't put any of them in charge of a treehouse, let alone the Whitehouse. (It sounds harsh, but it's true.) Do I want an intelligent, educated Ivy-Leager as my President? Darn right I do. Only the best and brightest.

That's not to say that one MUST have an Ivy League degree to get my vote. Heck, they don't really have to have a degree at all to get my vote. Could be a Teamster truck driver, as far as that's concerned.:p. But, they do have to strike me as being highly intelligent and not afraid to lead. (Which would mean sometimes making decisions that huge mobs of noisy, stubborn Tea Baggers will vehemently oppose, for example.:rolleyes:)


The last thing I want is some hokey, slogan parroting, squirrel hunting nincompoop whose popularity stems from the fact that she reminds us of the highscool dropout ditz in the trailer next door.

Thoughts, comments?

Dave

I generally agree. However, my experience with really smart people (I work with and around lots of PhD's and have a PhD nuclear physicist for a brother) is that they often lack in common sense what they have in "book learning." Plus, their management skills aren't necessarily commensurate with their intelligence.

Striking the balance between intelligence, common sense and leadership is indeed difficult. BTW, who with a lick of common sense and humility would want to be President just now?

qft!:)

My though is, you are still the best poster here!;)

Personally, I find Perry's popularity is a sad commentary on our country and I still cannot believe we did not declare all the Palin supporters imbeciles and take all sharp objects away from them.

Speaking of dumba$$es, Michele Bachmann said the following (in jest, she insists):

"I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here?’ Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we’ve got to rein in the spending.”

What's worse is that a Public Religion Research institute/ Religion News Service poll from earlier this year found that nearly 40 percent of Americans “believe that earthquakes, floods and other natural disasters are a sign from God.”

It seems she's preaching to the choir.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...6QnJ_blog.html

And then there's Dave's neighbor, Pat Robertson, interpretor extraordinaire of catastrophic events:

“It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America’s power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say ‘this is one nation under God.’ Now there’s a crack in it... Is that sign from the Lord? ... You judge. It seems to me symbolic.”

Michelle...ditzy presidential wanna be.
Pat Robertson...needs to retire.

That is exactly my position Finn. The more brilliant tend towards less engaging personalities. Of course, there are occasional exceptions.

Yeh, but how about the 40% of Americans who believe this drivel?

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

True. But around here, I have personally met people who believe this nonsense.......fanatically.

Dave