see http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/opinion/party-of-pollution.html for original article.
Traveling in Europe currently and speaking with many people in France and Germany, it is embarrassing, to say the least, to have the topic come up of the completely clueless and witless cast of Republican presidential candidates.
There is a lot of contentious, and sometimes irrational, debate going on in Europe about the EURO crisis, but at least one has the impression that European politicians and commentators are focused on the real issues, rather than competing with each other on how to pander to the most ignorant, uninformed, and intolerant among us -- to get wild applause for a statement that the poor and unemployed are at fault for their predicament is just one of the more obscene signs, as is the wild applause about the number of executions in Texas.
Republicans make much of the benefits of having former CEOs become president -- but even aside the demonstrably reckless, irrational, if not criminal behavior displayed by the managers in some of our largest corporations (which has led the country to the edge of disaster), corporations are not led in a democratic manner, much more like a dictatorship, and these CEO's will be completely clueless on how to deal with a Congress to get anything done.
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