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Presidential
Credentials
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[ as
they should be to renew faith in our nation
and restore confidence in
our governance
by loyal public servants ]
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Why do we
believe W. Mitt Romney is the best suited,
if not the only one capable of leading our
nation out of these troubling economic times
where we now face a deeper recession, if not
a depression, and loss of respect in the
eyes of the world community?
We believe his
esteemed personal virtues and successful
business track record are the kind of
personal qualifications and talents a good
leader must have without regard to their
blind political party loyalty and personal
ideological beliefs.
We believe
that the most important principle necessary
to the continued success and survival of any
form of governance by democracy is that of The
E Pluribus Unum Common Good that
should be invoked based upon the Vox Populi
and will of We the People, for the best
interests of all America and for all
Americans, first and foremost. |
We believe intelligence
suggests there are two sets of credentials or
eligibility qualifications for the position of the
United States Presidency, one is Legal and one is
Practical.
The U.S. Constitution
establishes The Legal and good judgment establishes The
Practical criterion of qualifications a Presidential
contender should hold.
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The Legal Qualifications
Article I, Section 1, Clause
5 of the U.S. Constitution states the legal
qualifications one must possess and hold to be eligible to
serve as U.S. President.
Article I
Section One
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"Clause 5: No Person except a natural born
Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at
the time of the Adoption of this Constitution,
shall be eligible to the Office of President;
neither shall any Person be eligible to that
Office who shall not have attained to the Age of
thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a
Resident within the United States." |
In summary, circa 2012,
to be legally eligible to hold the office of United
States President one must be:
- Thirty-five years of
age; and
- A natural born U.S.
Citizen; and
- A resident of the
U.S. for fourteen years.
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The Practical Qualifications
Intelligence and good
judgment suggest that the practical qualifications
and credentials one must possess and hold to be a
good choice to serve successfully as United States
President representing all of the populous known as
We the People of this great Union of Fifty United
States of America, also known as an elected
representative Republic form of governance by
democracy, are as follows:
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The best
candidates for President should be chosen
from among The Best We Have To Offer out of
all Three Hundred Million lawful U.S.
citizens.
Candidates
should always be nominated from among the
most honest, most decent, most moral, most
ethical, most talented, most successful,
most honorable, most truthful, most
trustworthy, best educated and of the
highest degree of unquestionable integrity
humanly possible to be found. Without a
focus on or regard for these virtues and
talents self-serving, self-dealing
corruption is inevitable. |
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Under our
American political party system the nominees
and the President should be chosen by
focusing first on personal qualifications, a
proven successful social and career life
track record, and the personal virtues of
even temperament, truthfulness,
trustworthiness, and integrity, rather than
political party loyalty and political
ideological beliefs alone.
Political career
pursuits were never intended by our
forefathers who created and set up the
government we have in America. Time has also
proven that the experience of career
political pursuits have not always nor often
proven to be successful criterion for the
best public servants and public service
decision-making.
Our political
system and our elective public service,
dominated and ruled selfishly by self-
centered, self-serving and now often corrupt
senior tenured career political ideologues
has created an evil and mean-spirited
atmosphere in Washington, in government and
in our political party circles over the last
several decades. The partisan political
bickering in America, our nation's capital,
and in the public square of Main Street USA
has become so vicious, vindictive, vile,
virulent, vitriolic, venomous and
vomit-generating as to disgrace all public
service and make our government completely
ineffective, inefficient and dysfunctional
for the E Pluribus Unum Common Good of all.
We must
therefore now reorder our nation's
priorities to include first and foremost a
national goal of adopting and effectively
enforcing term limits and an end to the
musical chairs game of career politicos used
to escape and evade this worthy objective of
good governance.
If our nation
is to be successfully governed and respected
for the E Pluribus Unum Common Good of all,
our leadership must be respected and
successful in their own right, in the eyes
of all our fellow countryman, and in the
eyes of the world!
Although common
sense is no longer so common in American
political circles and even though there is
no such thing as conventional wisdom in
American thought since the last such
convention was adjourned ""Sine Die" - I am
counting on the sage wisdom and humor of our
old ally, "ancestra" English forefather and
statesman, Sir Winston Churchill being
accurate and now hopefully having gone full
circle too. I reference Sir Winston's
humorous side-door compliment when he said
with a smirky smile on his face: |
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"America can always be counted on to do
the right thing, after exhausting all of the
alternative options of course!"
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By direction of the Board of
Trustees:
D. Gravatt Huber, Chairman
The Board of Trustees |
The Board of Trustees:
Carmen J. Melillo, 1st Vice
Chairman (Oyster Bay, NY/Boca Raton, FL)
Glen E. Barber, 2nd Vice
Chairman (Boca Raton, FL)
Melanie H. Cabot, Secretary (Palm Beach, FL)
C. Franklin Mooneyhan, Treasurer (Tequesta, FL)
Renee H. Morrison, Trustee-at-Large (Palm Beach/NYC)
Bonnie Re, Trustee-at-Large (Boca Raton, FL)
Fred W. Ruppert, Trustee-at-Large (Okemos, MI)
Nicole G. Feeley, Trustee-at-Large (Chesterton, IN)
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