Equestrian Skill: 1000 points
Posted on 11/20/2007 5:59:51 PM PST by HighWheeler
To get an important job, you have to be qualified for that job. Many times qualifications and skills are related.
Demonstrated Education is one thing, Desire is another good character, and appropriate Experience counts for a lot. A job candidate should be able to express these in detail during their job interview. The list of important aspects of a person who will be chosen as The President of the United States should be wide and deep in all kinds of categories.
I'm not talking about how a candidate stands on issues. Issues are like the obstacles you encounter while you are driving. You won't avoid potholes, or steer down the center of the highway, or parallel park a car in one attempt, or evenly brake in snow without skidding, if your driving skills are crap. However, any idiot can say they are "against driving into potholes", "I'm against sliding out of control in snow", or that they're "for driving between the white lines". When you have extensive driving skills, however, you can easily, deftly, quickly and correctly determine the best route through any road conditions and traffic that you come upon.
Any idiot can stand on one side of an issue for any senseless reason. Anyway, the issues typically wind up going the way the polls are swaying regardless of who is president.
I have started a short list of what I think should be important qualifications for every candidate to be judged by before they earn our vote to be POTUS. This could be their "driving skills" test. These and other qualifications would also be scored in order of importance by giving each qualification a value. Then the candidate can be scored based on their capability and skills for that qualification.
Feel free to add your own ideas for substantiating that the potential candidate has becomes more qualified than the others.
I dunno, surely the only qualification is that you have been sort of married to a former president? Isn’t that enough? < /s>
Just be someone the illegals will like. Can’t we just all get along?
Beyond the basics I’d say the most important thing is decisiveness. Presidents don’t need to have all the answers. They just need to recognize the right answer when they see it.
The way we select Presidents is pretty well messed up.
Stump speeches only show delivery polish, which doesn’t matter in a crisis in the situation room.
Likewise these so-called “debates” only showcase skills that have nothing whatever to do with the day to day stuff of being President. A really skilled debater doesn’t show anything that’ll matter in the oval office. Just as a poor performer in a “debate” might well be far better under the pressure of a high stress problem in the situation room.
They’re just different skills.
Heck... American Idol has a better formed selection plan.
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Equestrian Skill: 1000 points
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