When the media fail to question, probe, and investigate

America Needs Objective Means to Qualify Presidential Aspirants

By John Lillpop
Tuesday, October 6, 2009

How is it that applicants for lower-level positions with the federal government are carefully tested and vetted before being hired, whereas those desiring to be Commander-in-chief are subjected to no objective evaluation of ability, character, knowledge of American history and values, and patriotism?

Why must a G5 records clerk pass a host of intelligence, criminal background, medical, and psychological tests before being assigned a dreary cubicle and a PC, whereas the successful candidate for Commander-in-Chief is given the nuclear codes and keys to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue without being required to produce so much as a valid birth certificate?

If ever there were an urgent need for change, it is in the method by which presidential candidates are screened (not).

Relying on the mainstream media or the major political parties to do due diligence is pure folly, especially so with respect to the media when the candidate is a liberal.

Objectivity is thrown out the window as the media becomes part of the campaign, rather than skeptical inquisitors.

Imagine how the Founders of this great nation would react to a media representative who declared that a candidate causes a “thrill to go up and down my leg,â€