Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics will point to Gore's youth and to his "patrician background" as making him unfit to be president. Yet "patrician backgrounds" hardly affected the ability of FDR and JFK to govern on behalf of the less fortunate members of our society. Those who bring up Gore's age do so simply because they have nothing more substantial to raise against him, since, at 39, he already possesses 11 years of Congressional experience and a substantive legislative record...
...downslope and fearlessly launches himself on some of the shortest flights known to man. A sweet-tempered cross between fictional Ski Jumpers Spuds MacKenzie and Bob Uecker, Edwards finished dead last (but at least not dead) in the 70-meter jump. He scored with the media and the great unfit majority tuning in with his cheerfully loony answers. (His favorite skier? John Paul II.) After Edwards' promotional appearance at a nightclub, we-are-not-amused British Olympic officials stamped their little feetsies, cried foul, and the most ingenuous interview in town will be muzzled until the conclusion...
Robertson's ridiculous policies make him unfit to hold the nation's highest office, but his personal comments make him even more so. A few years ago Robertson said that "Christians and Jews are the only ones qualified" to hold public office in the United States. He has written that wives should "be willing to submit" to husbands and said that women merely "house babies." The TV evangelist has not denied he would quarantine AIDS victims; in 1980 he prophesized the end of the world two years later, and a few years ago wrote that there was a strong possibility...
...negative reading of the First Amendment: just as the state has no right to prevent the expression of views on televison, it should have no right to require their expression. But in this instance, suddenly the enemies of a positive interpretation of the First Amendment demand that news deemed unfit by the owner of a paper (the school board) be forced into publication by the courts in the name of the First Amendment...
...Hampshire, if he does not occasionally find it odd to be spending two years and up to $50 million in quest of a harrowing job that pays $200,000 a year, then maybe, just maybe, we have finally found the character flaw that does indeed make him unfit to be President...