“Let’s go with ‘content of character’ next time”
Content of character or at least a sane American.
You could cry when you think of the MANY capable and competent black men in America who SHOULD have been nominated instead of this half-wit.
And I mean capable and competent black men on BOTH sides of the issues.
Black person-on-the-street: “You know I had to vote for the black man, I gots to stick with my peoples, knowhaImsayin.”
Oh thats cool!
White person-on-the-street: “I voted for Romney because he is white. You know I have to stick with my people”
RACIST! BURN HIM!
We HAD a viable ‘content of characeter’ candidate in 2008, although that candidate was lashed to an insane, decrepid, twisted-minded POW, who has always voted AGAINST veterans, who stuck his finger NOT in the wind, to see where he needs to put his nose, and was already, and has continued to be a major embarassment for the nation.
HMMM, lets see...
Shootings at schools = gun free zones
Shootings at army bases = gun free zones
Robberies at Target = gun free zone
Oh boy, these guns have a mind of their own. How do they get in?
And how many robberies or shootings occur at a gun show? How many robberies or shootings occur at a gun store? It should be in the thousands since there are so many mean guns there.
Today's kids are taught about entitlements and government subsidies.
'Content of Character' is replaced by a collective victim-hood.
Hard work, education, family is lost on the black urban youth where their so-called leaders of today tell them the can't be anything more then hood-rats.
Because the impulse to shape society was too strong to resist. The statist by his very nature regards the masses as chronically in need of his instruction and in no area of human relations do the masses require more instruction than on the issue of racism. The opportunity to shape America by the election of an African-American who could deliver an inspiring speech and who held all the right politically correct policy positions-especially on the Iraq war-was the perfect vehicle by which to finally bring America to salvation on the issue of race.
Many institutions are preoccupied with the need to shape lesser beings. We can think of academia and see how they run their campuses to achieve the latest flavor of social engineering which beguile them. But, as stated, no issue ever surpasses race for academics or for any other institution as the foremost cause celeb.
When it comes to elections the media have the power to shape the outcome and they certainly strove to do so in 2008 when by electing the first African-American as president of the United States they could not only educate America and bring it into the 21st century, but they could vicariously live again the great glory days of the media involvement in the American Civil Rights Movement.
The temptation was irresistible. By the election of 2012, the media and so much invested in Barack Obama that they simply continued running interference for him. Today, there is no scandal which truly cracks the wall of protection which this praetorian guard has erected around their Caesar.
Why a black president? They could not do otherwise.
That usually shuts them up.
The winnowing down by the “content of character” criteria needs to start well in advance of the general election choice between the evil D and the useless R. It needs to start well before the primary season, when we get locked in to a breathless choice among a handful of notorious midgets (as opposed to well-known potential statesmen), all of whom think they are capable of running the country.
Absolutely! Content of character much more important that brilliance. You can have a really brilliant man/woman who is bankrupt morally, and do so much damage to the moral and fiscal fiber that it is almost impossible to overturn. We will never undo the damage done by this administration...or that of Clinton, who really set the bar for immoral behavior in a president. He was loved, but he lowered the standard by a long way. People did not appreciate that we had a morally good man in Bush. Had republicans held him in check when he got on the compassionate conservative trip, which was nothing better than democrat social policies bound up with ribbons, we might have seen a better outcome. But conservatives abandoned him instead of talking to him. I made a lot of angry comments at that time, but not one conservative actually attempted to get Bush to see it from a truly conservative perspective. What were they thinking? We’re paying the price now, in spades!