The only “white collar” professional position that requires no formal qualifications is the Presidency of the United States!
The only requirements are to be 35 years of age, a citizen of the United States, and be alive when elected!
No professional job–doctor, lawyer, professor, accountant, engineer or others–allows the success of a person who is ignorant, lacking in knowledge, or comes across as weird or lazy, except the Presidency of the United States!
So Herman Cain can claim to know nothing, and lean on “experts” to come up with all the answers to every problem. It is true that a President needs top advisers, but he also should be well informed about the major issues that he or she will have to deal with.
No matter how much a fool Herman Cain, or Michele Bachmann, or Rick Perry is, they can claim they are qualified to be President! The Republicans offer us people who are ill qualified to be our Commander in Chief, and ignores the qualified candidates such as Jon Huntsman, who SHOULD be the GOP nominee and give us hope for the party’s future!
The only hope is that the voters know how to sort out who should be eliminated, as no voter should want a person who is just “ordinary” to be the leader of the free world in the 21st century!
What we need are the best among us, NOT the ignorant among us, to lead America into the future!
Judging by what I have seen in Ohio, already over 100,000 signatures collected here in Wisconsin to Recall our Governor, kindled by the OWS; I would save to say that voters are starting to pay attention. It is amazing that the GOP debates are not in the entertainment section of the newspaper.
In my humble opinion, Ronald, the GOP is run by money and the money pays for a tool they can tweak for their own agenda. Not an educated, independent thinker or leader to the people. Hence, the fiasco that is all around us. If we had legitimate Republicans we’d have better candidates on all party platforms.