On Feb 28, 2008, at 6:05 PM, Kristyne McDaniel wrote:
> You haven't given any actual reasons for your support other than
> that you
> saw others were getting excited about politics, and you didn't give
> any in
> that message either.
Wrong again. http://leafe.com/archives/showMsg/378550
> Encouraging excitement about politics is a trivial
> reason to support a candidate. As I said earlier, the presidency is
> not a
> popularity contest or a beauty contest. It is a public interview for
> an
> extremely powerful position.
President of the United States is not just a civil service job that
goes to the most qualified. I seriously doubt that you were making
that argument in 1992: Bush I had tons more experience, and tons more
connections. He was way more qualified to get things done than that
young governor from a small state.
-- Ed Leafe
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