Politics

Politics should be about opposing positions seeking harmonious and productive balance. Instead, with politicians desperate for money and in the pockets of special interests, politics is an immature "my way or no way." And so we have the public showing great interest in non-politicians, a CEO and neurosurgeon, a billionaire developer and TV star. Whether this is a positive development or not remains to be seen.

If you or I were interviewed for an important job, we would be tested to see if we understood the requirements of the job and if we could do it effectively and with commitment. Yet the voting public must largely come to its conclusion through information filtered by the media: soundbites, interviews where the focus is on the interviewer trying to get a story, slick, over-produced campaign ads, negative attacks, debates that would rather see the candidates as attack dogs than anything else.

Ask each one a simple question, let them answer in full and let us decide: What do you believe are the personal, intellectual and ethical requirements necessary to be an effective President of the United States and how have you demonstrated you have them?