On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:05:59 -0500, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
What leads you to believe that the guy is not qualified to be
an associate director in the public liaison office ?

What leads you to believe he is...? Here's a rhetorical question for you - what
you have said if Bush (or more likely, someone had recommended to him as a
political move) had appointed someone with such a resume to such a post?

I don't even know what an associate director in the public liaison
office does, and I suspect you don't either.

You suspect incorrectly. And actually, you probably know more about it than you
realize, but didn't associate the title and office with the work/job - Mary Beth
Cahill and Charles Colson are two that come to mind, as well as Ford's, whose
name escapes me at the moment - Broomsky or something, who really had a job
after Nixon/Colson. While this position isn't exactly National Security
Advisor, it ain't nothing, and especially so for an administration promising so
much "transparency" and public "openness."

So I wouldn't have
said, or snickered, or smirked, or sniped anything at all.

So IOW, you are admitting you have no idea what the position is or how important
it may or may not be, and therefore, could have no idea what qualifications
might be necessary or even merely helpful, and further admitting that you have
no idea what the qualifications of the person appointed to the position might be
beyond his being some hugely-paid superstar (and wrong about that), but because
the Obama administration did it, it must be the wisest possible move to make.
And doing so while simultaneously accusing me of being blinded by some nebulous
bias...

Besides
having played a stoner in a movie what would disqualify him for a
low level job in the Executive Office Building ?

IIRC, it's a direct report position and IAC, it's not exactly "low-level." And
no, his playing a stoner (or really, having once BEEN a stoner) doesn't
"disqualify" him, but again, you are the one doing the assuming - you assume
that his resume does qualify him all the while admitting you don't have a clue
as to what would or should qualify or disqualify him.

And I suppose you believe Leonard Nimoy is a Vulcan, right ?

Like I said, you're just beancounter with a better vocabulary.
Every day it's a new smirk, a new snicker, some new proof that
Obama is a screwup and that electing him was a mistake.

Nope. It still remains to be seen what kind of POTUS he'll be, but yeah, thus
far, he does look every bit the rank amateur he is.

I'm sure he must look that way to a rabid partisan

Oh, irony, thy name is Fortenberry...

but most Americans don't think so.

Asked 'em all, did ya? IAC, it would appear that even his most ardent
supporters of even some knowledge and experience are beginning to worry about
that exact same thing...

HTH,
R