Comments on: TWLC’s Viviana Hurtado Talks about the Media and the GOP Primary Race on NPR’s Tell Me More with Michel Martin

By: Viviana

Viviana — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:06:31 +0000

Thanks Nile for your thought provoking comment! I agree with you partly that if someone is a good leader and has a track record to prove it, then his personal life is just that–a personal life. My problem with a major character issue like disparaging women, making passes, accepting bribes is that it can creep into and hamper leadership decisions.

I hadn’t thought about our politicians going back to being part-time. If they owned businesses, etc., perhaps they would be more in touch with regular Americans and less beholden to special interests. Along these lines, campaign reform and limits to campaign spending would go a long way to free politicians from special interests.

By: Nile

Nile — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:19:33 +0000

I have to say that probably every presidential candidate alone had some type of character issue. I could care less about Herman Cain’s 8 second creepy smile or that he might have been with a few women. I did not care when Clinton had either.

My big concern since the debt issue is still at large is why we still have full time politicians. Our forefathers were shop owners, farmers, and other types of workers or business men while being a politician.

If we would seriously look at these full time politicians and demote them back to part time, we would not be so focused on those former assistants, secretaries, or coworkers they did hanky panky with in the storage room.

I want to see more focus on getting things done instead of a bunch of wasted time and lip service.