jillian
Princess
It's my opinion that he's bizarre? Or it's my opinion that he provides comedy gold?
Methinks you're being a touch sensitive by insisting I identify those as 'Opinions.' When subjective statements such as those are stated it goes without saying that they're opinions. It's implied.
i think anyone who thinks someone who calls uzbekistan "uz bekki bekki bekki stan stan" and prides himself on being ignorant is qualified to be president is merely stating an opinion, too.
so there ya go.
And this is what I don't get. He's not a "real" politician. And he makes no bones about it. He's never been elected to anything and if you drill down on his record, his "qualifications" seem to be "He's good at math". What the heck does that help with? He's good at math and was able to test ballistics for the navy. Great. Made for some great charts to buttress research in the development of munitiions. Great. Made for a good plan in order to turn a crappy pizza company profitable again, by cutting labor and going for cheaper ingredients.
He has no history of getting consenus. No history of tackling big problems that have nothing to do with math. He failed before when he ran for various offices.
At least Bush won something. And knew a little bit about politics. And HE turned out to be an absolute disaster as a President. 9/11 is what failure really looks like. TARP is what failure really looks like. Market crashes are what failure really looks like. Iraq is what a failure really looks like. Afghanistan is what a failure really looks like.
It's atrocious Republicans keep sending this sort of non-politician, politicians into the fray. Because the results are horrible if they wind up winning. Like the 2010 house race.
9.11 is failure to the extent that he ignored the PDB. i'm not sure i'd lay the entire thing at his doorstep. there was an awful lot of failure in that regard... more than enough to go around.
as to the rest... yes, i agree. and while i understand the extreme right's affection for people not affiliated with a government they hate, people they put up for office should have certain basic knowledge. it's like they found palin, who was an embarrassment and then decided to up the ante and find someone who didn't know that china's had nukes for more than 40 years.