MORE INTERESTED IN POSITION OF PRESIDENT THAN THE JOB OF PRESIDENT?
by Cody Robert Judy, ©2015
(Aug. 1, 2015) — The anticipation of the first Fox News Republican Debate is rising, but the rise is offset by the lowered expectations for the Candidates. Politico’s theme demonstrates with headlines what I’m talking about – Fox Lowers Threshold for Early Debate. Many may not be exposed to the lowered expectations I’m speaking about, because they’re way too familiar with the dramatic comedy twist of SNL skits placed on ‘lowered expectations,’ i.e., see the short clip for understanding.
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No, it’s not that kind of ‘lowered expectations;’ it’s much, much worse. To expose that we turn to a Fox News commentator who to retain his/her free speech, I mean his/her/ job, asked for complete anonymity.
“Although we are relaxing one component of our entry criteria- the requirement that candidates must score 1% or higher in an average of five most recent national polls- all other components of the criteria remain in effect for the 5PM/ET debate. Participants must meet all U.S. Constitutional requirements (“you see our No. 1 requirement”), our insider said again asking for complete and total anonymity, “right there is SO messed up because if that were true, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and Gov. Bobby Jindal would be disqualified because they are not natural born Citizens, i.e., born in the U.S. to Citizen Parents. Sobbing, the insider weakly confessed his emotional, or her emotional, outburst as a defense for Carly Fiorina. “If it wasn’t for those illegal men, my girl would be on at 9PM!”)
We agree and patted his/her shoulder, assuring we would not divulge the insider’s name at Politico. It is certainly a sad day for Republican and Democrat women everywhere seeking an interest in presidential politics. We asked our insider why he/she thought that Carly or Hillary, for that matter, didn’t charge these men with being constitutionally illegal for the Office of the President? “Probably because they are women,” he/she said, “and they just don’t feel comfortable in the good ole boys club enough to do it.”
“Of course…of course,” we lamented with him/her. “That is the reason if Hillary Clinton owned a men’s razor factory and had gathered 50 male models together, let’s say in the U.S. Senate Chambers for a commercial, she would not be interested in their opinion of how the razor works on their beards in their shaving patterns.”
Bursting into a big smile and wiping away his/her tears, our anonymous political insider at Politico just delightfully called out, “You…. You… YOU get it! You are so wise.” It was then that in a rush we felt a bond and a need for a group hug. I thought that would be fine. Our insider just happened to grab my left cheek and squeezed it gently and rolled his/her eyes at me and it was then that I realized this could be a set-up to enrage my… well, let’s just say I pulled away and extended my hand in a friendly handshake.
It is true that Fox News has lowered the expectations of the Republican candidates, but the worst part of that lowered expectations is the insult to the qualifications of the President that Cruz, Rubio, and Jindal present, and the least bothersome is the polling place of the lower-tiered candidates. Let’s be honest, and as Obama has coined, “Let me be clear;” the poll has replaced the President’s qualifications in the Constitution as the prequalifier of the Fox debate.
The rest of the qualifiers included, “Must announce and register a formal campaign for president; and must file all necessary paperwork with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), including financial disclosure.” We assume the financial disclosure was a means of checking to see if the candidates were on the “millionaires’ list?” That is quite important for Republicans unless you’re a qualified minority who is not “completely white.”
It’s quite amusing that Fox News chose to include in its report that Jeb Bush has received the least amount of time since declaring his candidacy on June 15, but delayed longer because his millionaire donor list was longer than any of the others. After you declare officially you can’t count on as much cash from them as you can in the exploratory stage. Heck, he even raked in some of the Democrat Donors’ Cash as Hillary presumed to encourage DemocratsForBush in a panic-attack against Trump, securing the bond of the Repubicrat formulated with U.S. Sen. Res. 511 of which she was a co-sponsor along with Obama.
Read the rest here.