He took a job, it's not his fault it was offered, that's what people are missing here.
I'm not blaming joe-the-not-so-much-a-plumber for taking the job. did you misread my post in your blind partisanship?
Journalists never had that requirement to begin with, college simply makes it easier to hire on with a journalism company.
Really? When was the last time you applied for a job as a journalist? :roll: have there been instances where people became reporters/correspondents/commentators/writers/et al. I'm sure, but I'll bet if you could find one there would be a better reason than, he was a plumber. You're just trying to excuse this ridiculous appointment.
This is a very elitist statement,
I'm really getting sick of the "right" trying to tell us all that being elite is bad. It's not bad, being a dumbass is bad not vise versa. This is an example of what I'm talking about when I say that the "right" is hell bent on dumbing down our nation. Being ignorant should be something looked down on, not praised.
there are plenty of well spoken dumb asses getting on television and even elected, diction and grammer sound lovely, but when they lead to empty rhetoric then they are useless,
So your argument is that since there have been well spoken dumbasses we should just assume that a dumb dumbass can't be any worse? Great thinking there.
there also are different kinds of intelligence, saying a person who knows plumbing, or how to fix a car, or even can apply common business sense to something like running a country/region/local government because they don't speak well is the ultimate practice of not knowing the basics of human intelligence.
Ah no, I'm talking about people who have shown us that they aren't very smart or intellectually curious. A car mechanic may or may not be very smart and still be able to fix a car but that's a different thing isn't it? I think if you are going to comment on knowing the basics of human intelligence you might consider that there are different kinds of intelligence. Just because you are smart enough to put plumbing tape on a leak doesn't mean you're smart enough to be a Senator. Wouldn't you agree?
This is absolute arrogance, you call people sheep for listening to someone on one side, and then use Obama's name in the same paragraph, talk about sheepish behavior when the "messiah" got elected on the simplistic premise of "hope and change".
Really? you don't think there is a difference in the intelligence level of Obama compared to Joe the plumber? I think if you were to ask the ENTIRE COUNTRY who they would trust information from more, Obama or JTP...