I agree, Teddy was a superior president. That franklin fellow as a
disaster
clay
On Oct 18, 2008, at 6:24 PM, Hendrik & Fay wrote:
One of the great POTUS was Roosevelt, very cunning and always did
what he considered to be best for the US.
Can we say the same for the current crop of people running and
wanting to run the US?
Hendrik
ineligible to run.........sorry guys, although that part of the
constitution stinks of xenophobic discrimination, ironic for the
great democrazy called the US of A
Peter Frederick wrote:
That's easy.
Ms. Palin is a very good example of a number of people I've met
over the years (often of the non-denomiational variety, but hardly
exclusively) who simply cannot differentiate the notion of public
service from their concept of personal existence. Not a full blown
sociopath, but simply do not understand the concept that other's
have any real existence at all, or that their actions might be in
conflict with someone else's beliefs and that others might have a
right to disagree or be correct in that disagreement.
As stated by an Alaskan newspaper reporter, when he asked a fellow
political reporter if Palin had trouble with determining the
difference between her official duties and her personal life, got
the answer, "you don't understand -- for her there there IS no
difference". She is very sharp at discerning a way to make a
distinction difference between herself and someone else, but there
is no philosophical or ideological basis for that distinction, she
will use whatever works and blithely discard it when it no longer
works and simply refuse to acknowledge that she had any particular
stance or made any particular statement. She operates solely on
pure personal loyalty, and has been known to savage "friends",
political or personal, who fail to support her unquestioningly,
especially when she makes one of her about-faces on policy.
I've taught some University classes, and you run across this type
pretty often. They are both male and female, appear quite bright,
but usually only memorize words and word patterns. They are quite
good at memorizing scripts, but have serious difficulties with
synthesis (that is, understanding a concept and evaluating the
dynamics of problems, troubleshooting, or producing solutions to
problems that are not examples in the textbook, as they don't
really understand things). They can appear quite articulate until
you carefully analyze what they are saying, at which point it often
becomes either circular logic or variations upon a set group of
catch phrases. A pattern of tossing out jumbled ideas in
conversation is typical, and when you appear to agree with
something partially, that phrase or idea will be modified to suit
what appears to be your interpretation, although what gets repeated
or passed on will not be the same.
A great deal of hot air has been passed around about her
intelligence and perspicacity, but I suspect she just memorizes
well, and in fact is doing a very poor job as Governor of Alaska.
Easy state to be Governor of -- awash in money, with more readily
available at any time by raising oil royalties and taxes. No State
income tax, low sales taxes, no real reliance on the population for
financial support, and a population who doesn't really care what
the state government does so long as it doesn't impinge much on the
citizens life much except in terms of services received. Alaska is
the recipient of vastly more Federal money per capital than any
other state, and I've not seen Palin say anything about that -- I'm
sure she would have some nasty smart-alec comment that other
states should just do as good a job at lobbying as they do.
Very poor choice for a Governor, let alone President.
Peter
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