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Because the other choices are even more scary. Halloween is coming, closely followed by the election. Booooooooooo!
Good Morning Rosie...
What if the experienced surgeon has a record of all her patients dying or the experienced mechanic uses the wrong parts and charges a fortune...
I might consider the inexperienced in that case....
So what have the county gained from the experienced politicians ?
That might even answer your question :-) 'time for a change'
Because Trump is IT!! There is NO ONE else...
There are no better choices.
Actually, it appears the framers may have used wealth as their only criteria for holding office.
I think you are stacking the deck quite atypically for you des. I seriously doubt that any experienced surgeon kills all her/his patients nor does any mechanic use the wrong parts and charge a fortune all the time. You know that. So what is really behind this response?
Thank you for your reply and Happy Sunday! :)
Thank you for your reply bh.
Ask those who voted for Barry O.
@Tm -- Unless you raised similar complaints about George W. Bush, your complaints about Barack Obama's alleged political inexperience are F***ING HYPOCRISY.
Because many Americans are a basically a bunch of desperate deluded idiots
At the core of their idiocy is a legitimate concern: there is substantial evidence that our current Political Class is far more focused on its own interests and that of the Rich/Corporate cadre of donors who keep them in office.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/princeton-experts-say-us-no-longer-democracy
But rather do the hard work of reforming American democracy so that it would actually be responsive to the general populace again, many Americans hope that an "outsider" candidate (such as Donald Trump) can shake up and reform the system on their behalf. Given the reality of our divided government and the institutional forces which tend to preserve the status quo, such beliefs amount to little more than wishful thinking.
We got so complacent and lazy, we left anything that we did not have to be responsible for to others and paid them for it.
We have idiot doctors writing perscriptions for maladies that make us sicker. We have idiot lawyers who we depend on because we are too lazy to defend ourselves properly. We don't even know the law, half the time. We have an idiot government. We watch idiots on TV. This is our mental food.
What choices do the unaware have? You and I are unfortunate. We get to watch. We are aware. We know what is going on and we get to watch everything fall apart. There is very little we can do at present because there are too many zombies disguised as American citizens ruining the country and the planet.
Wrong again . . .if someone has earned the title surgeon they are already educated and, most likely, experienced. As to the mechanic . . . oh, how little you know about that..
As to the political part of your question why did people foolishly vote for Obama? (That IS who you're talking about?)
Your example of an experienced surgeon is somewhat misleading.
The best surgeons often take on the toughest cases, those that other surgeons have rejected because of almost certain failure in the OR. (Dr. Q is a great example.) It becomes a "Hail Mary" play for a patient that's already been written off, basically dead anyhow. Naturally those surgeons are going to have a higher mortality rate.
Many believe his time as Governor was experience enough to qualify him for the position.
OS makes a solid point. Obama was both a senator and lawyer before he took office making him no less "unqualified" than, say, W. Bush.
You have just made another stupid statement. Oh wait, let me spell it the way you'll understand it. Stoopid I think is your spelling. Maybe you could use some more dirty words and capital letters. It'll make you feel better I'm sure. Why else would you do it......................
He was a six year governor and had business and management education and experience. Yes, most people believed he was qualified. I never stated an opinion about that.
There was no solid point made. In fact the only point he made was about himself. He makes that point over and over again.
@TM -- Oh, stuff it.
You know and I know that the reason you criticized Barcak Obama's "experience" is because you have ideological disagreements with him, NOT because you have any reality-based opinion about his political background.
And I'm calling if F***ING HYPOCRISY because that's what it is. Having different standards for different people based upon your ideological affinity for them (as evidenced by your vague weak hand-waving defense of George W. Bush's "experience") is hypocrisy. And it's hypocrisy you should be smart enough to recognize.
If you don't want to be criticized for engaging in it, don't engage in it. There are ways to criticize Barack Obama or complain about the lack of experience of presidential candidates (or sitting presidents) without being a hypocrite about it.
@TM -- Apparently, you're so caught up in your own butthurt you need this spelled out for you. Here's how one HONESTLY approaches this question:
1) Develop a standard of what experience a Presidential candidate (or elected President) SHOULD have.
2) Compare candidates (or sitting Presidents) to that standard
3) Acknowledge which candidates/Presidents meet that standard and which ones do not.
YOU didn't do that. You said President Obama lacked experience based upon...nothing. You then asserted George W. Bush had sufficient experience based upon...well, he was governor and did some business things.
OK, so is being a state governor one of your criteria. Then, by your standard only 18 of the 43 US presidents were "experienced enough". Hey, if you'll own up to that, fine.
But we both know what's really going on here. You don't like Barack Obama or his policies so you crack on him for "lack of experience" You did generally like Boy Emperor Bush and his policies so you consider his "experience" sufficient. As I said, F***ING HYPOCRISY.
As for my style/tone, I don't see why I should be polite in face of blatant intellectual dishonesty like you display. Language matters, and if you don't like the incivility of my tone, well I don't like the incivility of your implied statement "Barack Obama was a political neophyte and people who voted for him were stupid for doing so because he was a neophyte" when you have NO CONSISTENT EVIDENCE-BASED STANDARD to back up that assertion. Quit displaying F***ING HYPOCRISY and I'll quite criticizing you for it.
