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Lipstick on a Special Olympian

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Friday, March 20, 2009 7:42:44 PM
Not having learned from innocently failing to realize his "put lipstick on this pig" comment would be interpreted by his audience as a slap at Sarah Palin after her Hockey Mom/Pit Bull joke, he gives Sarah the huntress more ammo with his "Special Olympics" comment on Lenno. Fortunately for him the foot-in-mouth position does make you a smaller target. Not only did he tick off Palin, he also got dyed in the wool/dead in the head Democrat Maria Shriver to express mild disapproval. Can you imagine how different Shriver's response would have been if George W. Bush or Rush Limbaugh had made such a comment?
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Nobody is qualified to be President by their own knowledge

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Saturday, September 27, 2008 11:05:45 AM
Even otherwise insightful columnists get lost when talking about executive qualifications. Kathleeen Parker's recent article about Sarah Palin is an excellent example of this.

The worst person you could ever elect as President of the United States is someone who thinks they know it all. The job is just too big for one brain. McCain and Palin have the three key skills needed in a president.  

A president must surround himself or herself with specialists who know more about particular areas than the president does. Good judgment about who to have around you is more important than specialized knowledge. Two names that disqualify Obama: William Ayers and Tony Rezko. (I give him a pass on what Jeremiah Wright has said due to previous experience with the preaching style of Black pastors. Saying that he sat in the church for 20 years and didn't know it was being said is another matter altogether.)

A president must listen before deciding. Surf up some articles where Obama's campaign staff talk about his leadership and decision making styles.

The third key skill is gaining the trust of key decision makers so that the ideas generated by the presidential team can be communicated effectively and convincingly. Palin's wowing of a few foreign dignitaries one-on-one is a promising sign. That Obama can't form a clear though without a TelePrompter is not.

Character and judgment are more important than knowledge in any executive position. They are pretty much the ONLY things that can qualify someone to be the President of the United States. It is pretty clear which ticket wins on that score.
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Why Obama should not be a professional football player or President

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 12:33:41 PM
Professional football players are not selected primarily for their verbal abilities, but even they are expected to know when something they are thinking of saying will go on their opponents locker room bulletin board and serve as motivation. Understanding how your words will be taken, in or out of context, is much more important for the job of President of the United States. It is also much harder to do when you are dealing with people of different cultures as Presidents must do.

Obama's "lipstick" comment is strong evidence that he is not qualified to be President. There are two possible explanations for it. One is to take him at his word that he really didn't mean it as a slap at Sarah Palin, in which case his inability to anticipate the effects his words will have completely disqualifies him from such Presidential duties as negotiating with nuclear armed rogue regimes. The other possible understanding is that he did mean it that way and is now lying about it. This is also a Presidential knockout for most Americans.
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Gee, I wonder why she changed her attitude towards a bi-partisan investigation?

Posted by Nerdus Maximus on Thursday, September 04, 2008 1:41:57 PM
One of the emerging slaps at Sarah Palin showed up on Politico. The current accus-question is why she has retained a lawyer and is seeking a change in who will investigate whether she overstepped her bounds in the firing of her former brother-in-law. Gee, what may have changed that would have her no longer be content with a bi-partisan committee of Alaska state legislators looking into it? Maybe it was that she knew she would get fair treatment from the Democrats on the committee when it was something nobody outside of Alaska, and few people within it, cared about. Now that every part of the national Democratic machine and every MSM “investigative” reporter in the country will be pushing the Alaskan Democrats whose phone calls they would not have even returned prior to this to find and leak some dirt on Palin, it needs to be handled differently. Understanding how things like this need to be dealt with differently when the situation changes is, of course, above the pay grade of Democrats and the MSM. That Sarah Barracuda understands is one more bit of evidence that leading is not above her pay grade.
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