[geologist]

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“The NE Corridor has determined she just doesn’t have what it takes like McCain and Barak did. The main criteria we need to choose our next Presidential candidate will be if they live outside the District of Corruption. This is the problem and the primary goal of the next leader will be to clean the swamp of corruption which means you will have to be an outsider and Palin’s porch is a half a world away from that Inner Circle.”
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How presumptuous to make wide sweeping statements such as this.

How a person thinks, what their criteria is, what is the goal, how to best achieve it, what are their values, ... no one is ready or suited to be President alone. It takes good department heads, advisers on many many fronts. No one is ready to meet difficult situations until they meet them and the need arises. This is what determines the mettle of a person. Obama is an example of weakness. McCain is an example of being too old and too compromised to have values that he will not bargain away. MO

Sarah is not afraid, speaks her mind, goes to the people with constructive solutions, and will fight the establishment that has brought us to this sorry state of affairs. ... etc., etc., People can prepare fpr crisis, but until it occurs it is not possible to know how the person will respond. Bush on 911, And Giuliani in New York did a great job of responding. President are smart, willing, talented people that can communicate to the people, make sound decisions and do their best.

Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, and a few others have proved, it was worth the risk taken by their people.

[maica]

A local example of “NE Corridor” tunnel vision:

A university professor of rhetoric is a regular guest on one of our talk show radio stations. He continues to maintain that Obama is a good speaker, going so far as to say this morning that using the teleprompter is immaterial, when a caller brought up the fact that he is frequently tongue-tied when answering a question.

On this morning’s show, hosted by the wife of our former Republican governor (and this year’s unsuccessful candidate for for governor), the ‘leaning right’ professor of rhetoric and Mrs. Ehrlich started the show bashing Sarah Palin as wrong for the country and the Republican party in so many ways as a prospective presidential candidate.

If there is one quality that this prof of rhetoric should have been praising her for, is Sarah’s exceptional use of language to communicate. But his dislike of her on a personal level overrides his professional critique of her speaking and communication skills.