It does seem there have been some people running for national office with a lack of understanding of certain things you figure a President should either know or know how to bluff around.
However, there is a lot of "gotcha" or "gaffe" mentality in the rival media. If the President says something factually off, its a major gaffe on FOX and if a GOP candidate says something that could be interpreted as not knowing what he should, it's a big deal on MSNBC.
However, after sorting through the "gotcha" moments in journalism, it is still clear the public has a right to expect a certain conversancy in history and world affairs from those seeking the Presidency.
But its also true that many recent Presidents have not had direct foreign policy experience, including the last two.
It's true a good manager, a good listener and a person with temperment and judgment are what is needed for office, whether its the Presidency or a local office. Voters will decide that, although for the Oval Office a good 85% will just be voting for party and won't care if their candidate didn't know China has nukes or if America has 57 states.
Watertown Daily Times Foreign policy quiz
7 comments:
All I want in a President is a dude or a chick who gives a frack about us for once. Not about all the other messed up countrys in the world. Our messed up country need help. We need to weed our garden.
Everyone knows our country has 50 states so that was just a case of him not paying attention to what he was saying. But it is a safe bet he did not know how to pronounce corpsman.
I could not care less about a president reading newspapers. We need one that has read history. One that knows and understands the faults of socialism and communism and centralized government...and one that knows Keynesian theory did not apply to a nation already in debt and spending huge deficits.
It is history that is important!
Party line. How many worship at that alter. That's what has made this once great country a budding third world disaster. Who cares? I gots a government job.
Watched Cain on Letterman last night and was impressed with how he handled the constant verbal attacks on his intelligence and policies..Letterman was unrelenting and rude in my estimation,barely giving Cain time for a response before pooh poohing his responses as not worthy of consideration..but when former President Clinton is on the show,Letterman fawns on him like a schoolgirl..am I wrong here?
If you're there with your limo, where are we supposed to park?
Wow...Letterman was very rude. Here is the segment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weSRvepbCrw
Herman did very well at turning it around.
Thanks 759 I thought it was just me,but if you watch it you will see what I meant..I realize Late Night is an entertainment show but the host treated it like he was a sixty minutes reporter..Letterman is known as a liberal(though why is that, when he is as rich as anyone they protest in Zucotti Park) and Cain must have known what he was getting into, but I give him points for staying on track and not losing him temper with an apparent ambush job..
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