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To: Scanian
Will we ever again have a president who didn't go to an Ivy League school, who knows what it's like to struggle -- as so many Americans struggle every day -- and who's tasted defeat, but got back in the ring with his dukes up?

Wouldn't it be a fine thing to have another president whose first serious taste of failure didn't come in the Oval Office?

We don't need presidents with exclusive academic credentials. We need presidents who know what it's like to work for a living. We need presidents who understand average Americans. We need presidents for whom the White House isn't just the ultimate résumé entry.

Truman, Eisenhower and Reagan had different visions of what was right for America -- but their concern was America, not themselves.

These profoundly different men had two other things in common: They weren't lawyers, and they had the courage to make tough decisions, from dropping the first atomic bombs to telling the chieftain of an evil empire to tear down a wall.

Our post-modern presidents can't even decide what to do with blood-soaked terrorists. I don't think that would've been a problem for Harry, Ike or the Gipper.

2 posted on 03/13/2010 3:33:44 AM PST by iowamark
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To: iowamark; Scanian

Perhaps there are some who perceieve them as succeeding rather then failing and that they are the ones who really matter.


5 posted on 03/13/2010 3:39:38 AM PST by David Isaac
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To: iowamark

I think the words “Post Modern” in the title pretty much sums things up.


6 posted on 03/13/2010 3:40:00 AM PST by WorkerbeeCitizen ( If Obama is the answer, it must have been a stupid question!!)
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To: iowamark; FatherofFive
Will we ever again have a president who didn't go to an Ivy League school, who knows what it's like to struggle -- as so many Americans struggle every day -- and who's tasted defeat, but got back in the ring with his dukes up?

Yes, Her name is Sarah and she is from Alaska

9 posted on 03/13/2010 3:48:15 AM PST by verga (I am not an apologist, I just play one on Television)
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