[kerfwango]

<p><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g5J9vVAaHXFD2-SH--MImsSkgymw" target="_blank">Oops</a>.</p>

 

[Tech Tee]

I'd like to see this quiz.

 

[GaReb770]

<p>I don't know Kerf.  I think the elected student body of UGA could lead us better than the current two parties  in Washington, D.C.</p>

 

[Grizzly]

<p>See, that's where I think we've lost track of the reason we elect people.  They now look better than us...  but are certainly not wiser or smarter.</p>

 

[Tech Tee]

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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>Grizzly</strong> <a href="/t/75232/we-elect-them-to-lead-because-they-know-more-than-us#post_2014348"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif"></a><br><br><p>See, that's where I think we've lost track of the reason we elect people.  They now look better than us...  but are certainly not wiser or smarter.</p>
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It's been said (and it's probably true), that Abraham Lincoln would never have been able to get elected today.

 

[Grizzly]

<p>Nor Roosevelt.  If people ask questions about migraines, what would a guy in a wheelchair hope to face?  Of Kennedy's Addison's disease? </p>

 

[Tech Tee]

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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>Grizzly</strong> <a href="/t/75232/we-elect-them-to-lead-because-they-know-more-than-us#post_2014398"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif"></a><br><br><p>Nor Roosevelt.  If people ask questions about migraines, what would a guy in a wheelchair hope to face?  Of Kennedy's Addison's disease? </p>
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Don't know if Addison's would have been an issue, unless Nixon would have played up the issue to question his fitness.<br><br>
But, back then, politicians, while still scum of the Earth, had a bit more class. I read something once, and I'm not sure if it's true, that there were some states that could have been questionable in the awarding of electoral votes (W. Virginia maybe?) in that election, and the Nixon camp decided to not make an issue of it, lest it look like they were sore losers. Something that today, we well know, happened, in 2000.<br><br>
There is no honor in politics anymore. They do not do it to serve, they do it for the power.<br><br>
Hell, there are rumors that Lincoln was gay, and almost certainly James Buchanan was. How would that fly today?

 

[Grizzly]

<p>From our perspective up here it seems like the US is in perpetual election mode, and gosh that must put a drain on the system.</p>

 

[yar]

<p>It's sad, but we get what we deserve.  Half the people don't vote in national elections.  80% don't vote in local elections.  Those who do as a group are pretty uninformed.  So a fancy campaign surrounded by a cadre of super-committed supporters is almost a shoe-in, regardless of what kind of moax the candidate is.</p>
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<p>yar</p>

 

[kerfwango]

<br><br><div class="quote-container"><span>Quote:</span>
<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>GaReb770</strong> <a href="/t/75232/we-elect-them-to-lead-because-they-know-more-than-us#post_2014336"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border-bottom:0px solid;border-left:0px solid;border-top:0px solid;border-right:0px solid;"></a><br><br><p>I don't know Kerf.  I think the elected student body of UGA could lead us better than the current two parties  in Washington, D.C.</p>
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I'm confident they could lead us to the nearest pub.</p>

 

[kerfwango]

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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>Grizzly</strong> <a href="/t/75232/we-elect-them-to-lead-because-they-know-more-than-us#post_2014348"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border-bottom:0px solid;border-left:0px solid;border-top:0px solid;border-right:0px solid;"></a><br><br><p>See, that's where I think we've lost track of the reason we elect people.  They now look better than us...  but are certainly not wiser or smarter.</p>
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<br><br><p>Education, too. How many people in the U.S. (and this could certainly apply elsewhere) have an understanding of the first principles of our nation's founding? How many people have taken one or more philosophy courses? How many people have read The Federalist Papers and know who the Anti-Federalists were and what they stood for? Basic stuff. And you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who remotely knows what those questions even relate to.</p>

 

[GaReb770]

<p>But at least they can lead us there, something no one in Congress nor apparently the administration can do.<br><br>
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I'm confident they could lead us to the nearest pub.</p>
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