..Martinez answered in a convoluted way that the voters “vetted” Obama during the election by selecting him in full knowledge of what his credentials were and weren’t...
The problem is because of the Democratic party, the Republican party, the judiciary, and the media, the voters did not have full knowledge of his credentials.
Mel was making a lazy argument more than anything else (he was on “short time”) and I don’t happen to agree with him.
However, I believe that the line of thinking that he expressed is what is behind some of the laxness that we’ve seen on the part of out “exemplary” officials, though politics, fear, and simple apathy has plenty to do with it as well.