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To: MrLucky who wrote (28424)	9/9/2006 8:50:03 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541025

I won't hesitate to judge a candidate's speaking skills, grades, arguments and anything else I think is germane to his ability to be an effective president. Decisions not backed by sound judgment and sophisticated analysis or just GIGO, IMHO. Digging in one's heels to stick with faulty decisions is just being a mule, not a leader. Declaring vague wars against undefined enemies with undefined conflict scenarios and absolutely no real model for the outcome that you declare is absolutely necessary is just foolish. Politicians who speak poorly tend to think poorly, in my experience. But hey, some folks admire it. A lot of other folks don't, according to those nasty periodic survey exercises I know you dislike so much. ;<) FWIW, I didn't think Perot or Dole were presidential timbre, just like Mondale and Dukakis weren't either. I would rather have the system weed those folks out before they get to the Oval Office, their approval ratings plummet and they end up buried in a political bunker issuing statements about their resolve.