02-16-2012, 07:43 PM
Dennis S wrote:
I see your point, Grace. Also, to my point, the king-makers in the old days would never have picked a Palin like they did in these days. The caliber of politicians has gone down.
They would never have picked a woman at all, that's for sure. But it was "smoke filled rooms" that brought you Hubert Humphrey, keep that in mind.
What measure are you using to determine this "caliber" of leaders?
We tend to idealize past leaders and minimize their mistakes and personal failures, failures that were never even reported on until recent decades.
I don't think our leaders are necessarily better or worse now, we just know a whole lot more about them.
PS: Here's the reassuring thing about Sarah Palin, at least to me. The highest office she has ever attained is Governor of one or our smallest states, population-wise. And she received 114K votes. And she didn't even make it in that job, she quit half way through. She maintained initial popularity by sending out record high oil profit-sharing checks to citizens. (Socialist!) Anway, now she earns a living as a pundit. Fine. But the people don't want her as a leader.