Occasionally, I feel I have to get this off my chest. Since it looks like I'm near the end of this tread, I think I can post this without concern of hijacking the thread.
Sometimes I have to prove to myself that I'm not mindlessly biased. Now check it out. I'm for Sarah, right? I love her and she looks to me like the best thing coming down the pike. I love Alan Keyes, and admire Clarance Thomas as maybe the best Justice on SCOTUS when it comes to adherence to constitutional intent.
Nevertheless, here's what I posted on another thread. Hopefully this won't get moderated out...
I love Sarah, but am sick of quotas and affirmative action giving the leadership roles to women and blacks over those who may be more objectively qualified.
I believe by-and-large that women are equipped for children and the home and relationships in general. I tend to think that in some ways women are more intelligent than men, at least in some arenas. The arena of relationships for instance. I think, however, that women in general have difficulties with the focused and objective demands of leadership positions in the workplace or politics. This is not inconsistent with the New Testament view that also includes the caveat of the susceptibility of deception. Their relationship strengths that make them a star at home have a tendency to cloud the difficult objective decisions leadership requires, thus the statement about unreliability (not at home, but in leadership roles, “exceptions notwithstanding”).
From my observations, the prevailing black culture is dysfunctional in two important areas:
1) A kind of self-hatred/self rejection causes family relationships to be harsh and cruel, especially with their children, but also between husband and wife. The self rejection and harsh treatment growing up may have a lot to do with a lack of motivation.
2) An attitude that someone owes them a living and if something goes wrong, why somebody isn’t going to fix it for me. Obama's Socialism and CommieCare are reflections of this mindset. That also may be why no known black government is free and democratic but dictatorial.
I guess the best spokesman to come along about the problems in the black culture (in general) and the reluctance to address problems in black culture is Bill Cosby. Maybe if a relevant article comes through with him as the author, FR might not delete it.
> “I love Sarah, but am sick of quotas and affirmative action giving the leadership roles to women and blacks over those who may be more objectively qualified.”
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Here is what is wrong with your idea:
There is no one AS well qualified as Palin, let alone more qualified.
Alan akeyes has run before, but due to his total lack of any kind of executive or electorial experience he has been a low single digit guy every time.
Alan is a great guy, but just not by any stretch of the imagination presidential material. But he’d make a really great professor.
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The break-down of black families was by design, (by the progressive democrats) & LBJ’s Great Society put the finishing touch on it. Now we learn that all those trillions have been wasted. Poverty is worse today than in the 60’s and government schools are failures, unless one considers the dumbing down of America a success, and I suspect the democrat party just might fall into the latter category.