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To: MrLucky who wrote (28422)	9/9/2006 7:40:47 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541052

If you are saying a politician doesn't need to be articulate enough to explain ideas that are compelling to the majority of voters, we would disagree. That's like saying that giving a high school senior a C- in English is "badmouthing", just because he can't write a coherent paragraph. Sounds dangerously like all that liberal mollycoddling that conservatives always complain about. Whatever happened to standards and achievement? Are they coastie snobbery when representatives of a certain political class fall short, and important goals for our nation when applied to the broad masses? Slippery slope you are on there. FWIW, one of the most famous orators ever in the White House was a Republican, Lincoln. I don't think it's "badmouthing" his successors to judge them by historical standards. Why should selected presidents suddenly become exempt?