Essential qualities needed in an American President, particularly in this 21st century of a complex world, and a growing population of what is now 315 million people, would include:
Competence
Compassion
Empathy
Sincerity
We need a leader who demonstrates care about ALL of us, not just the elite and wealthy!
We need a leader who has known struggle in his life at some point–such as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama—whether it is:
Family Problems And Issues While Growing To Adulthood—Truman, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, Obama
Personal Health Issues—Roosevelt, Kennedy
Major Challenges To Success—Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan, Obama
Only the two Bushes really did not have major family problems while growing to adulthood; personal health issues; or major challenges to success.
But even they had compassion and empathy for the disabled (the elder Bush), and for the victims of September 11 (the younger Bush), although later, both the elder and younger Bush botched up the emergency of Hurricane Andrew and Hurricane Katrina in a massive wave of incompetence!
Barack Obama possesses all of these qualities mentioned above, while Mitt Romney has not proved his worth in these regards, even so much as competence as Massachusetts Governor, although he has rose colored glasses in looking back on what was, basically, a term in office that made him so unpopular he could not have won reelection as Governor of his state had he decided to run!
Mitt Romney, simply, does not have the qualities needed for our Presidency in the 21st century. He lacks, for sure, compassion, empathy, and sincerity!
He is much more like Herbert Hoover, and yet, even Herbert Hoover first became famous for reacting properly in human tragedies in the time of the Mississippi River Flood of 1927, the massive Soviet relief effort in the 1920s, and the Belgian relief effort in World War I!
So we would have to push Romney back to the Gilded Age of monopoly capitalism, before the Progressive Era ended the concept of a limited government, which had ignored the needs of its citizens en masse!
The 20th century dawned, and the battle for the federal government to play a major role in people’s lives began, and we are not about to revert to the late 19th century!
Sorry, Mr. Romney, your attempt to go back one hundred years and more to the worst times of the Gilded Age is rejected, and YOU ARE FIRED as a potential President of the United States this coming Tuesday, November 6, 2012!
Hello Professor,
I need to pass this on.
First there was the attempted purge of 45,00 voters from the voting rolls in Ohio, then came the threatening billboards in black neighborhoods in Cleveland. Now it is letters through the mail. One can only imagine what the Election Day intimidation will bring.
The Toledo Blade reported on Thursday that some voters in Ohio received a letter from a conservative group known as AmerÂiÂcans for LimÂited GovernÂment. The letter shows the recipient her votÂing hisÂtory, showÂing that she voted in 2004 and 2008. It even has a “Notice NumÂberâ€: 47494705, the meanÂing of which is not exÂplained. It also shows the votÂing hisÂtory of six othÂers who live on her street.
Someone needs to be going to jail for this type of intimidating crap. This is not Democracy!!
Thanks for spreading the word. IF Ohio is “lost”, I hope Democratic lawyers will start a lawsuit, and NOT allow what happened to John Kerry in 2004, to occur again. But i think Hurricane Sandy has, ironically, hurt Romney and helped Obama, with some hate mongers on the Christian right claiming that Obama “arranged” for the hurricane to help his own candidacy. The only problem is that IF he wanted to help himself LOL, then Obama would wish to cut down voting in Republican states, not Democratic states. How sick and hateful some on the far right have become! One would hope that sane voters would wish to punish the Tea Party whackos and the right wing by repudiating them, kicking them out of Congress, and a boycott beginning of right wing hate mongers such as Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage and others of their ilk!