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January 20, 2017 at 4:25 PM #804990
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[quote=harvey][quote=njtosd]And here’s the other thing, and I’m not a Trump lover, but if intellectual good hearted people were guaranteed to make good presidents, Carter’s administration would not have been such a debacle – and if the opposite were true, the Reagan years would have been much worse.[/quote]

Nobody here has made the claim that intellectual good hearted people are guaranteed to make good presidents.

And you don’t even back up your strawman very well. The “Carter bad, Reagan good” summary of that period of history is a ridiculously flawed oversimplification.[/quote]

First of all, I never said Carter bad, Reagan good. I said better and worse and I stand by my point – it is very hard to figure out who is going to be a good and/or bad leader. I used to have a friend who worked for a leadership study initiative that was part of the U.S. Dept. of Ed. They were incapable of coming up with anything beyond a rudimentary set of characteristics that were relatively common among good leaders. I voted for Bill Clinton, but I think I was not alone in being surprised at what a good president he was. I was also surprised that the charisma of the Obama presidency dissipated so quickly.

More importantly, I find zk to have a significant streak of hypocrisy. I especially take issue with the hypothetical from the perspective of some unidentified (probably zk – like) smart guy trying to prevent the rube from Iowa being duped in NY. This post DRIPs with prejudice and bias, which I thought was what everyone was accusing the Trumpers of. Interestingly, Iowa is actually one of the smartest states in the country, and the midwest ranks uniformly high: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/13/actually-mr-trump-iowa-is-one-of-the-smartest-states-in-the-union/?utm_term=.c17424dd4c57

The people on this board seem to think that simply being in favor of the Democratic candidate makes them smart guys – and that those who disagree with them or question them are dumb. I would think those who despised prejudice would know better.