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"Just like you" is wrong answer
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by YankeeJim | October 15, 2010 at 06:46 am
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If you think you want someone just like you to be your representative, maybe you should have run for office yourself. Do you think you are qualified? What do you think it takes to address the most monumental economic crisis of our modern time? Do you think someone just like you can fix it? If you do, step forward.
Don’t fall for the crap that some candidates are offering. You don’t want a retired art teacher addressing the transformation of our economy from petroleum to renewable energy. You don’t want the guy next door engineering your healthcare system.
For Pete’s sake, wake up. Get serious about government and your representation. Right now, we don’t have all good choices because We the People have been dead brained about defining what qualifications are essential to manage our vast and complex nation.
We don’t want 10th graders running the country, even though, on the average, that is who we the electorate are.
Aim higher, if you can, for our nation’s sake.
Retired teacher or successful attorney and legislator?
Angle vs Reid, Aggression vs Compassion
When she called for Harry Reid to “man-up,” did she know she was talking to a former championship fighter? Did she know he was a successful attorney?
“The contrast between the two candidates was stark, both in style and substance. Angle and Reid seemed to approach the debate with different goals. The challenger aimed to show that she could stand up to a veteran of national politics, while the incumbent sought to connect with voters who are demoralized by the recession and downright hostile to Washington and anyone connected to it.
"Mortgages? I understand homes are underwater," Reid said in his opening statement. "That's why I worked hard to get $200 million into the state of Nevada to help homeowners" -- a reference to federal funding he helped to secure last month to help Nevadans who can't pay their mortgages.
Angle countered, "I'm not a career politician. I'm a mother and a grandmother. I was a teacher for 25 years. Senator Reid has been a politician for over 30 years. I live in a middle class neighborhood in Reno, Nevada. Senator Reid lives in the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C."”
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at 06:49 on October 15th, 2010
America's founding fathers were accomplished in business and life. They were the best brains that we had. That should be the standard for government elected representatives. Not just the guy or gal next door, unless they are among the best in America.