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• Thursday, December 4, 2008 05:40 AM

  It’s been great

  reading this thread, even the approximately 85% I seem to not have the capacity to make heads nor tails of. :-)

  What I still don’t understand about the “families in politics” [because I think “nepotism” is not the correct word] argument is why a woman like Hillary Clinton should be automatically denied the opportunity to be President JUST because she had the gall to fall in love with and marry a guy who [15 or so years later] was elected president. It’s not like he’s appointing her to the position.

  What happened to “judge a person by the content of their character”? Now we are to judge them by thier names and the actions of their fathers/mothers [and, if she's a woman and has takern her husband's name, her husband's fathers/mothers?]

  After reading all the arguments, I admit that I still don’t get it.

  I’d like to thank sysprog for the articles. I would love to see Army Major General Antonio M. Taguba

  http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/06/25/070625fa_fact_hersh?printable=true

  and Former Navy Counsel Alberto Mora

  http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?060227fa_fact

  in some high positions in the Obama Administration where their courage and ethics can be put to use for the good of our country...no matter who or what their forebears to the seventh generation were, said or did.

  —harpie Read harpie's other letters
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