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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (104036)	5/2/2011 3:54:09 PM
From: chartseer	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224706

Actually it has been said some people may actually be too smart to be an effective President. "At least since David Halberstam's "The Best and the Brightest" chronicled how a group of really smart people drove American into the quagmire of Vietnam, we have been suspicious of intelligence alone as a qualification for running the country. Not that anyone really wants a dumb president (George W. Bush's backers defended his intelligence), but there is probably a consensus that being smart is not by itself enough qualification to be president. It must be combined with other virtues -- character, common sense, leadership, and, a new buzzword, empathy, for starters. Jimmy Carter, for instance, is clearly intelligent. He studied nuclear physics and trained to captain a nuclear submarine. He gave a vigorous Oval Office speech to declare America's energy independence, with an ambitious plan to freeze oil imports, which he could never get implemented." secure.marketwatch.com citizen chartseer