Reply #44: Our error. [View All]

[H2O Man]

Sorry. My friend WhoCountsTheVotes and I thought that you were the Dookus who asked, "Isn't it possible that people who are qualified to be president tend to be successful at other endeavors?" But we accept on face value your more recent claim that you are not. You must be the Dookus who "merely pointed out" that 7 of the past dozen presidents came from humble oranges. It might well be said that two of the 12 did: Clinton and LBJ. Considering the factual history of the Johnson family, we're down to one. But that doesn't make your first point any less valid: a poor person can become wealthy, and a person born to humble circumstance can actually become president. But it doesn't change the fact that a poor person can not become president until (s)he becomes wealthy, and that because wealth is the #1 factor in POWER in this culture, it opens the doors to snakes and cheneys becoming powerful far more often than honest and decent people. Oh, I'm sorry : you aren't the Dookus who made the comment about those "other endeavors"! Or are you?