I agree. I said months ago I wanted to see Pete vs. Nikki, because I want us to argue over which of two really smart people get to be president. I think Haley would make a great president.
Michael Gallagher: Everybody in this room is smart, and everybody was just doing their job, and Teresa Perrone is dead. Who do I see about that?
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it isn't about "smart".
those who shipped our manufacturing base offshore, and the jobs, tax bases, and US national sovereignty and independence, with them, were smart.
those who eliminated the banking regulations that didn't just enable, but flat guaranteed, the 2008 economic meltdown, were smart.. as well as the crooks that bailed out the other crooks, and then foreclosed on Joe Citizen, were smart.
those plotting daily to enable the "interested parties" to decide who won and who didn't in future elections, are smart.
the mad scientists who deliberately set out to engineer as viral and lethal a virus as they could, as an intellectual exercise, were smart.
and all were/are, just doing their job.
it wasn't/isn't personal, it's just business.
vision and judgement and ethics and drive for policy that benefits the many, instead of the few at the expense of the many, for the long term and not just the short, are what matters.
that you just don't get that, has always been your failing.