Re: Is Anyone In This Group Enthusiastic About Any Candidate?

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:45:29 -0600, "John Galt"
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:54:37 -0600, "John Galt"
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:02:35 -0500, Oldie69@xxxxxxxxx (Olly Mensch)
wrote:

When you are aspiring to be the President of the U.S., you do not find
yourself in a position where you have to "hire" experience, and rely on
the views of others. A President will always have available to him the
views of the membes of his cabinet; but that should not exclude his own
That is not the quality we want in a candidate. For the highest
office of the country, we want someone who DOES have experience
himself/herself, and Obama has none, though he does have intelligence
and charm - but no experience - and that is dangerous and foolish for
the public to elect him. Anything at all could be "hired' - it
represents second-class performance, relying on the judgment of others.
We elect a President in order to be able to rely on his judgment, based
on his own experience, on top of the advice he receives from his
Cabinet.= = Olly

So, who in your view has this vast experience running the federal
government? Romney, McCain, Guiliani, Huckabee, Clinton, Obama,
Edwards. Those who have been Senators -- McCain, Clinton, Obama,
Edwards have participated in foreign policy agendas and votes.
Romney has no federal experience nor does Guiliani or Huckabee.

So run them down, Olly, and tell me which is superior in this task
based on actual experience in Washington? That seems to be the
critereum you are advocating?

Experience in Washington, or experience running a government? The lists
are
different.

Experience in Washington, from most to least:

McCain
Clinton
Edwards
Obama
Guliani
Romney
Huckabee

(the order of the last three determined by how much meaningful interaction
each would likely have had with Washinton in their former positions.)

Experience to be President, most to least:

Romney (governor, Mass. being larger than NYC)
Guiliani (NYC being larger than Arkansas)
Huckabee
McCain (longest Wash tenure)
Clinton
Edwards
Obama


Which of the candidates judged correctly on the issue of invading
Iraq? Was not that the most momentous decision of the last 8
years?

Only Obama, but I don't like to make this a one-horse pony sort of
process.
No matter how huge Iraq seems, it's still just part of a very large
picture
called "The Effective Governance of the USA". (IOW, being right on Iraq
does
not mean that Obama won't screw up the economy.)



Haven't you noticed? The economy is already FUBAB,
thanks to the borrow-and-spend "economic philosophy".

I've noticed. Things can always get worse, and quite easily, for example by
ignoring Medicare funding for a couple more terms.





Yep, things can get worse, especially if we continue to
elect the party that not merely allowed things to get this.
bad, but actively worked to get them this bad.

There ain't no free lunch. You can't cut taxes and also
continue not merely to spend, but spend harder and harder.
If you do that, what happens? What happens is what we
have now. I never heard of Friedman saying how utterly
stupid this policy was, but I don't know, maybe he did.
Did he? If he didn't, then you already know what I think
of his Nobel prize. It seems that even a chipmunk should
have known perfectly well all along that this was an utterly
stupid way to run one's finances, even an ordinary
chipmunk that never won a Nobel prize.







.

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