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While the facts are important, I really can't buy into the "Katic Couric" plan that presidential candidates be potential "Jeopardy" winners.

A leader should possess many things other than rote memorization of historic dates, times and places.

The most needed quality for a leader for America right now is courage. With countless advisors at hand, not to mention a tireless staff, any situation required historical accuracy can be researched at a moment's notice, just like obama's teleprompter writers do.

Governor Scott Walker is a perfect example of a leader - courage and integrity beyond reproach. Knowing the right thing, and doing...damn the torpedoes.

Fixing all of America's ills will be a be a gigantuan task; it will take a super hero just to undo obama's messes. But now that the left has had a taste of unbridled power, they are not going gently into that good night, we have a fight on our hands.

The upcoming battle is not for the faint of heart like Jimmy Carter, nor the appeasers, like John McCain. The left has a lot of good "intimidators"...who use terrorist-like scare tactics to weaken our resolve. They hope that fear will keep us from fighting, as they don't really want a fight. It's like the old schoolyard saying, "One is scared, and the other one is glad of it.".

Whichever candidate, or potential presidental candidate comes forward, the left if going to leash the Kracken on them with their favorite weapon, the politics of personal destruction. With their screwy policies and liberal/socialist ideology, it's the only thing they have...well, except cheating at the ballot box.

However, i disagree with the notion that our side must pass a pop quiz in history and adhere to Courics approved reading list to be a president - especially looking at what we have in office now.

The most needed quality for a leader for America right now is courage. With countless advisors at hand, not to mention a tireless staff, any situation required historical accuracy can be researched at a moment's notice, just like obama's teleprompter writers do.

Your standards are very low.

Courage is all very well, but ignorant courage is worse than useless. The old saying, "fools go where angels fear to tread," is appropriate here.

A real leader has to know enough to be able to tell when one or more of those "countless advisers" is giving bad advice.

As for Ms. Bachmann's gaffe, I suppose it's natural enough; but what it really shows to the people of NH and MA, is that she doesn't care enough about them to take the proper care when she speaks.