Qualifications Are "Way" Over-Rated
Stan Grimes
December 20, 2008
If the colonials would have waited for someone "qualified" to slip the word to Great Britain that they were separating from their motherland, this country would probably now be known as Southern Canada. Qualifications were hard to find in the eighteenth century. By today´s standards none of our founding fathers would be considered qualified. Some of those gentlemen cooped up in a sweltering room in Philadelphia were teachers, farmers, lawyers, and some were just plain smart guys wanting to be free of the British Empire.
The First Amendment spells out the qualifications needed to be a president, a senator, and a representative. None of these qualifications include such ignoble qualities as being in bed with lobbyists, sleeping with the oil companies, or receiving payback money. In other words almost anyone can become a senator, even Caroline Kennedy. She´s old enough, she´s an inhabitant of the state of New York, and she has been a citizen of this country for more than nine years. Read your First Amendment my fellow citizens.
Qualifications are over rated in our country. George Bush was more than qualified. He was the governor of a state, his daddy was president, he had his hands in his daddy´s oil rich pockets, and he said all the right things to get elected. Was George Bush a good president? The history books will spell that out in a few years. There are millions of cars out on the highway and I assume most of the drivers have qualified for a driver´s license. Are they all good drivers? Read the morning newspaper.
We seem to change the definition of qualification whenever a candidate we´re interested in runs for office. John McCain was qualified, Sarah Palin? By the written instructions in our constitution she by all means was qualified. Could she do the job? I´ll let you decide that one. I can barely type her name without taking a sedative.
Maybe a new breed of Americans have finally come forth and said, "To hell with qualifications, we want someone to give us a reason to live everyday, someone who has walked the means streets of America and someone tired of seeing the boot heels of Big Brother trying to knock down the door to our freedoms."
We have had eight years of qualifications. Maybe it´s time to try eight years without one qualified person obstructing our path to reinstate the Constitution of the United States of America. You know the one I´m talking about. It´s the one that has qualified me to write this article.
The First Amendment spells out the qualifications needed to be a president, a senator, and a representative. None of these qualifications include such ignoble qualities as being in bed with lobbyists, sleeping with the oil companies, or receiving payback money. In other words almost anyone can become a senator, even Caroline Kennedy. She´s old enough, she´s an inhabitant of the state of New York, and she has been a citizen of this country for more than nine years. Read your First Amendment my fellow citizens.
Qualifications are over rated in our country. George Bush was more than qualified. He was the governor of a state, his daddy was president, he had his hands in his daddy´s oil rich pockets, and he said all the right things to get elected. Was George Bush a good president? The history books will spell that out in a few years. There are millions of cars out on the highway and I assume most of the drivers have qualified for a driver´s license. Are they all good drivers? Read the morning newspaper.
We seem to change the definition of qualification whenever a candidate we´re interested in runs for office. John McCain was qualified, Sarah Palin? By the written instructions in our constitution she by all means was qualified. Could she do the job? I´ll let you decide that one. I can barely type her name without taking a sedative.
Maybe a new breed of Americans have finally come forth and said, "To hell with qualifications, we want someone to give us a reason to live everyday, someone who has walked the means streets of America and someone tired of seeing the boot heels of Big Brother trying to knock down the door to our freedoms."
We have had eight years of qualifications. Maybe it´s time to try eight years without one qualified person obstructing our path to reinstate the Constitution of the United States of America. You know the one I´m talking about. It´s the one that has qualified me to write this article.
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