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viernes, 23 de marzo de 2012

JUST A QUESTION

POLITICAL CANDIDATES







Why is so important personal life of candidates once they try to be designated in USA Congress, Senate or even to be President?.
Not only to be a politician but just to be elected as attorney, judge or which ever other public charge or just being designed to be a big company´s general director or other similar charges.
It is a good question to think about, but this subject is considerate only in Anglo-Saxon countries like USA or U.K., but also some other countries that were ruled by the English culture.
Why is so important having in mind that the real question is not about family, sexual behaviour, or just to be or not married, divorced and so forth.
The right question could be capacity, honesty, good administration, loyalty, health and now to be a real good manager with a brilliant mind.
In Europe it does not matter if the candidates to be elected president, congressman/woman, mayor or senator have been divorced once or twice, even if they have an active sexual life or not.
Europeans does not care about these subjects, they cared about otherideas like, to be at the right or at the  left, freedom, honesty, good or bad administration and so forth, but sexuality?.

No, I do not think so.
What usually happens in EE.UU. when they are in the election´s years it is absolutely incredible for us, many of the candidates have been obliged to dismiss when something of his/her private life has appeared.
How many divorced presidents have been chosen in EE.UU.?, well I think that only one Ronald Reagan, but he divorced from his first wife several years before being designated. Not another man was elected along the history of this country, not any woman either what is really peculiar, but only a black person and a single catholic man to be president.

Why? if to be divorced is a legal situation  by all means.
Even being black, woman or catholic is a trouble?, just not to think about being latino, it seems like impossible that a latino could be president in this big country with more than docens of millions of latinos living in it.
To be again at the point of sexuality or behaviour we could se that:
In U.K. a king could not married a divorced woman last century, so he has to dismiss also.
Now there is one waiting to be king, he has married a divorced woman so it would be amusing to see if he will be king or would be his son.
I could remember Clinton affair that was so important in USA years ago, but here we were astonished by the relevance of such a matter.
Lot of candidates in USA or U.K. have been dismissed from their options to be promoted as politicians just because some love affairs.
Is it good or bad?
May it be the right or wrong way to choose a candidate or a politician?.
I don´t really know but our Mediterranean or European point of view about these subjects are somehow different than from the British sexual culture.
Has the Bible something to do with the protestant sigh of life, sexuality or marriage subjects?.
I think it could be, but it is my private way of thinking.
All the best friends and have good elections after all.













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5 comentarios:

  1. May be it has something to do with
    being in the group of "wasps"....
    (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant)
    Well, I do not know but seeing the
    results after so many years it coul be.

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  2. A difficult question to answer in a few words, but a very good one! The general feeling (right or wrong) of most Americans is, I think, that one's choices in private affairs illustrates larger patterns of good or bad judgement. So that when a man cheats on his wife, many people (especially, I suppose, women) will think that this shows a sort of untrustworthiness in *all* matters, not just the personal. Of course, that could often be quite wrong - one could be honest in politics and dishonest in your personal affairs - but that separation of public/private is more difficult for people to see. Why are things different in Europe? I'm not sure entirely - perhaps there is something of the Protestant morality in public life in the U.S. that is not present in other cultures. I am not an expert in this area!
    Jeff

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  3. Some how I agree with you Jeff, it is a difficult question to have a right answer and more or less I understand quite well which is the possition of the people who are going to vote, but even so I can not be in agreement with the that point.
    It seems to me there are a big doses of social hypocrisy in such actitude, why?. May be because I have lived in a world of hypocrisy for a long, too long time.
    There were such a lot of sins inside the soul of all of us that I can not support the absolute right unpoluted social actitude thinking that our votes goes to unreal persons who has not any kind of defects or errors.
    I think it was Jesus who said "the first of you that have not any sins throw the first stone", even He hates hypocrits
    and also it said that was He who said that these persons are like "bleached tombs" talking about the Pharisees hypocrisy.
    Well, Pharisees there are lots of them every place and land, trying to look perfect what is absolute impossible
    after all.
    Thanks Jeff, a good wise reply my friend and I think you are absolutely right about your point of view.
    It would be a long long talk....

    emiliano

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  4. By the way Jeff, have you seen the TV.Serial
    "The Good Wife"?
    To me one of the best for long, beside this
    Tv. serie touchs this subject absolutely as
    one of its line of development, also it has
    lot of meanings about attorneys and some other
    low and politicians people in Chicago.
    All of its episodes are magistrally made, good
    actors, good scripts.....and some how the plot
    is about this subject.

    Take a look if you can.
    Regards.

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  5. Emiliano - for some reason I did not get an email from you about this note, so I'm just seeing it now. I have not seen The Good Wife but I have heard good things about it. I like the main actress in it, but I have not see the show. Sorry. -Jeff

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