President's qualifications
10/17/08
Mr. O's qualifications?
I have asked myself why anyone would want to vote for Barack Obama?
To vote for any politician we need to consider a variety of personal and professional aspects about the individual in order to make a judgment of competence and personal character.
Break down those parameters into the following:
1 Obama's character, associations, judgment.
2 Experience, work, accomplishments
3 Credibility
4 What is he promising? Are those promises about critical, national priorities or just feel good "pandering" to the public? How much would it all cost and where would the money come from?
5 Would he make a credible candidate?
1 O's character is affected by an unsettled youth, lack of proper parental guidance, a mixed racial genealogy but with a good brain and a drive to succeed.
He has good personal self control, at least in public, doesn't rattle easily and of course speaks well, but frequently speaks in somewhat general terms, as if he really doesn't want to go into detail using examples from experience to highlight his opinions.
His early association with a variety of questionable characters has made him try to walk away from those contacts because they are no longer useful to him now. They were once.! His denials are suspect, particularly since he spent 20 years as a member of Jeremiah Wright's anti-American, anti-white, racist Chicago Church.
His work as a trainer of "community organizers" for ACORN encourages one to believe that in fact he is quite the opposite of what he claims to be. His credibility has suffered, at least in the eyes of some.
Most importantly, his people judgment is either atrocious or so cynically self-serving that one should question his ethics. Imagine what such a man would do if he had real power and could rid himself of anyone who disagreed with him.
2 His work experience should be considered completely inadequate as preparation for USA Commander in Chief. His ability to get himself elected to the Illinois State Senate and later to the US Senate only proves that he knows how to use people to succeed in the political world without ever having accomplished anything.
His objective all along was to become recognized at the national level of politics. He succeeded and gave a good speech at the Democratic Convention in 2004.
But does that constitute a credible professional career pattern qualifying one to become President of the USA?
It seems to me he still hasn't accomplished anything to benefit the country, only himself. And now he is 2 weeks away from the supreme prize, a stupendous feat for an individual who has no serious record of accomplishments anywhere.
3 As far as credibility is concerned I'd rate him an F. But for chutzpah an A+.
4 What Mr. Obama is promising the electorate is essentially more of the same socialist nonsense that has gotten us into trouble in the past. More government and higher taxes together with Democratic overbearing interference in our free market system are there, right now, for all to see. In case you had not noticed, Mr. Obama is just promising the "perfect" socialist moon but it could also be worse than that, more like the erstwhile "communist" moon.
Mr. Obama appears to have a singularly casual view of the world outside, particularly the world of our self-appointed enemies such as radical Islam, N-Korea, Sudan, Syria, Iran, Venezuela etc. And because he's a great talker he seems to think everything can be settled agreeably with a lot of talk. His knowledge of history appears neither very deep nor broad, nor well understood. This is not a promising background for a US President, in my opinion.
His thoughts on opening the credit spigot are disarmingly unpersuasive, but certainly will be very costly.
His promises to fix health care, the environment, global warming and the economy would appear to be unrealistic to anyone who can add 2 and 2. It makes for great speeches but will later turn out to be so much hot air if results do not measure up to expectations.
Consequently, I cannot divorce myself from believing that Mr. Obama is mostly pandering to the public.
5 The mantra that it is time to let an Afro-American become President is a slogan and not a valid reason of course for favoring Mr. Obama over any other candidate.
In sum, I cannot help but conclude that our country is likely to run a greater risk, in these perilous times, by electing someone like Mr. Obama, to become our next President and Commander in Chief. Mr. Obama certainly is a personally appealing individual but also lacks depth and experience and therefore might not be as qualified as he should be.
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I may be wrong, but the signs in favor of a successful Obama presidency do not appear propitious to me.
Mr. O's qualifications?
I have asked myself why anyone would want to vote for Barack Obama?
To vote for any politician we need to consider a variety of personal and professional aspects about the individual in order to make a judgment of competence and personal character.
Break down those parameters into the following:
1 Obama's character, associations, judgment.
2 Experience, work, accomplishments
3 Credibility
4 What is he promising? Are those promises about critical, national priorities or just feel good "pandering" to the public? How much would it all cost and where would the money come from?
5 Would he make a credible candidate?
1 O's character is affected by an unsettled youth, lack of proper parental guidance, a mixed racial genealogy but with a good brain and a drive to succeed.
He has good personal self control, at least in public, doesn't rattle easily and of course speaks well, but frequently speaks in somewhat general terms, as if he really doesn't want to go into detail using examples from experience to highlight his opinions.
His early association with a variety of questionable characters has made him try to walk away from those contacts because they are no longer useful to him now. They were once.! His denials are suspect, particularly since he spent 20 years as a member of Jeremiah Wright's anti-American, anti-white, racist Chicago Church.
His work as a trainer of "community organizers" for ACORN encourages one to believe that in fact he is quite the opposite of what he claims to be. His credibility has suffered, at least in the eyes of some.
Most importantly, his people judgment is either atrocious or so cynically self-serving that one should question his ethics. Imagine what such a man would do if he had real power and could rid himself of anyone who disagreed with him.
2 His work experience should be considered completely inadequate as preparation for USA Commander in Chief. His ability to get himself elected to the Illinois State Senate and later to the US Senate only proves that he knows how to use people to succeed in the political world without ever having accomplished anything.
His objective all along was to become recognized at the national level of politics. He succeeded and gave a good speech at the Democratic Convention in 2004.
But does that constitute a credible professional career pattern qualifying one to become President of the USA?
It seems to me he still hasn't accomplished anything to benefit the country, only himself. And now he is 2 weeks away from the supreme prize, a stupendous feat for an individual who has no serious record of accomplishments anywhere.
3 As far as credibility is concerned I'd rate him an F. But for chutzpah an A+.
4 What Mr. Obama is promising the electorate is essentially more of the same socialist nonsense that has gotten us into trouble in the past. More government and higher taxes together with Democratic overbearing interference in our free market system are there, right now, for all to see. In case you had not noticed, Mr. Obama is just promising the "perfect" socialist moon but it could also be worse than that, more like the erstwhile "communist" moon.
Mr. Obama appears to have a singularly casual view of the world outside, particularly the world of our self-appointed enemies such as radical Islam, N-Korea, Sudan, Syria, Iran, Venezuela etc. And because he's a great talker he seems to think everything can be settled agreeably with a lot of talk. His knowledge of history appears neither very deep nor broad, nor well understood. This is not a promising background for a US President, in my opinion.
His thoughts on opening the credit spigot are disarmingly unpersuasive, but certainly will be very costly.
His promises to fix health care, the environment, global warming and the economy would appear to be unrealistic to anyone who can add 2 and 2. It makes for great speeches but will later turn out to be so much hot air if results do not measure up to expectations.
Consequently, I cannot divorce myself from believing that Mr. Obama is mostly pandering to the public.
5 The mantra that it is time to let an Afro-American become President is a slogan and not a valid reason of course for favoring Mr. Obama over any other candidate.
In sum, I cannot help but conclude that our country is likely to run a greater risk, in these perilous times, by electing someone like Mr. Obama, to become our next President and Commander in Chief. Mr. Obama certainly is a personally appealing individual but also lacks depth and experience and therefore might not be as qualified as he should be.
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I may be wrong, but the signs in favor of a successful Obama presidency do not appear propitious to me.
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