Ideally, but that would require a system that actually worked that way. If we could have mandatory candidate questionnaires that then got given out to all the voters and we could easily fire an elected official based off of lies/omissions/etc on the survey, then yeah, that might work.
As it is, I think that the job interview metaphor doesn't really hold. I think it is more of a sales job. As a voter, I'm putting out an RFP and then meeting with salesfolks and part of that process is not only learning what the sales people have to say about their product but also what they have to say about competing products. In general, I'm more inclined to buy from a sales dude/dudette who emphasizes how awesome their product is, but I'm going to listen when they point out that their product does X that I was interested in in my RFP and the competitor product doesn't do X. Cheers, Judah On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > To use the analogy of a job interview, don't you think it is up to the > voter to do background checks and check references before hiring the > candidate? > > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> I can see this from a job interview sort of point of view. We, as >> voters, are interviewing the candidates and want to know why they >> would be good for the job. On the other hand, a political race differs >> from a job interview in that the candidates know one another. I think >> that it is reasonable for candidates to compare and contrast, since >> they have knowledge of the other candidates and we, as voters, don't >> get to directly ask/demand answers from the candidates for the job. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:330535 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
