The scariest thing I hear about the Palin nomination was that she would appeal to voters because they would be able to relate to her and she to them. I get that. There are many places where relatability is key. I am a recovering addict alcoholic and finding another group that relates to my struggles is/was key to my sobriety. When I am at school I find myself grouping with others whose kids share the same issues, interests. People tell me all the time that the More magazine article where I showed what my real body looked like in comparison to the air brushed images most women are fed, was important and made me relatable. That too is great. The problem is I may be relatable and share some of your experiences and concerns but you don't want me as president of United States. Relatability gets you nothing in a complex financial crisis. Relatability doesn't help you understand the Gordian knot of trouble in the Middle East. Relatability doesn't help you untangle the obscenity which is our health care and insurance system and relatability doesn't train the hundreds of thousands of new teachers and repair and rebuild the smashed infrastructure and schools where they work.
I couldn't hold my own for one minute in a debate on any issue with someone like a Barack Obama or Joseph Biden and neither can Sarah Palin. When the call comes at 3AM I want a mind who was at the top of their class, who has gravitas and a real intellect. I want a leader who is a scholar who can hold the history of civilization in his head and will read and learn from the past as he charts the future. Real debates, where issues are explored, are the only way, prior to an election, to get the two candidates and their running mates to share their ideas and plans for the myriad contingencies they will/might face. This isn't a test. We don't get a re-do. This is the hardest time this generation has ever faced and people are all scared about the economy, our health care and mostly our children's futures. That is what millions of Americans and I can relate to.
Is this man truly the best candidate the Democrat Party could come up with?
Do we really want a VP you can watch a hockey game with?
I'm with Jamie Lee. Call me crazy but I'm kinda' thinking we might want leaders who are smarter than the average Joe or Jane.
If you want a guy you can have a beer with, or a woman who knows how to run a PTA, feel free to give my husband or I a call.
But if you want a leader with a high IQ and a global world-view who has the plans (and the team) to reverse the 8 year debacle of debt and doom created by Mr. Relatable and his Republican buddies, you might want to consider voting for Obama.
"When the call comes at 3AM I want a mind who was at the top of their class, who has gravitas and a real intellect.
Didn't Biden come in 76th out of 85 in his class?
And where did John Kerry finish At Yale or Harvard?
One of the things I have heard over and over agin is "where are the great men and women anymore? where are the Goerge Washington
Look, I don't want my leaders to look down on me, but especially in the case of the president, I do actually want him or her to BE better than me. I want them to be better read, smarter, more diplomatic and articulate
Save wanting to have a beer with Larry the Cable Guy and elect a person with intelligen
If Obama had picked a running mate with the so-called experience of Palin, the GOP would have said it proves their point regarding his bad judgment. And would we want our country in the hands of a woman with such a background if Obama (God forbid) was assassinat
If Obama or Biden, for that matter, had a pregnant unmarried teen aged daughter, they would jump on the opportunit
Now Grumpy McSame is saying he's the candidate of change. He's trying to steal Obama's message because the "he's not experience
McSame's version of change is like the teen aged kid who changes a shirt for the cleanest dirty one he can find.
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Thanks for your thoughtful take on all this relational nonsense..
The real issue is John McCain and his many unresolved psychologi
I think americans are tired of showmanshi
EXACTLY!!!
Obama's credential
A community organizer in ChicagoTwo years experience as a U.S. senator, with not one accomplish
I am UNDERWHELM
Americans fear intelligen
Americans elect dumb leaders. They worship dumbness. Witness the Simpsons, Family Guy... we ridicule knowledge, curiosity, intelligen
The opposite of the Age of Enlightenm
Why won't Obama release his academic records?
Biden is capable of losing a debate without his opponent opening their mouth.
Fifth from the bottom of the class.
Your peers.
Why won't Obama release his academic records?
Biden is his own worst enemy in a debate.