America cannot afford to have an absent-minded, forgetful president
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We went through 8 long years with a president who had "fuzzy/boozy memories" of his past. He seemed to have "forgotten" most of what he may have learned along the way in school, and apparently did not try to re-learn much, since he blundered his way through his tenure, leaving mostly wreckage in his wake.
This was our MBA president...the one who planned to run the country as a "biddness", even though all his private-sector business ventures had been stupendous failures (except for the fact that HE always managed to land on his feet due to Pappy & the Saudi buddies).
Everyone likes to take those unpleasant childhood/adolescent/teen memories and tuck them inside a "brain wrinkle" so we don't have to think about them, but when things we do, write or say have witnesses....witnesses who are not part of our close family (the ones who might choose to say nothing, lest the family name be besmirched). they are always "with" us, just waiting to resurface......often at the worst possible moment.
These memories , and the memories about shared events that reside with the others involved in the events are always just ready to be re-discovered. The mental health community makes a tidy sum every year because memories have a way of bubbling up and into our present-day lives.
Who among us has not remembered that Christmas when you only wanted one thing, and did not get it, or that time you were stood up, or the time someone hurt your feeling way back in 5th grade.
It's inconceivable that an event that involved hunting another student, chasing him down, restraining him as he screamed & cried for help, then totally humiliating him by forcibly cutting off his hair. Mittens has no problem remembering things his FATHER did as a young man, but his memory fades dangerously when memories of his own character-forming years are involved.
When my own three sons were young, I often told them to imagine that anything they wrote down would be read aloud in class by their worst enemy, or that anything they did or said to a girlfriend would be watched by her father & mother, or that anything they did might end up on the front page of the newspaper. We reminded them that nothing they did, said or wrote would ever be totally theirs and theirs alone. Someone would always "know" what they said, did, or wrote.
Wealthy people can afford to be "forgetful" for as long as they have a retinue of people cleaning up behind them, but someone always finds out..just ask John Edwards or Bill Clinton how that works.
There are too many important things that need to get done, for us to waste more time on a deceptive, secretive and forgetful president.
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And yet somehow Mitt Romney would be way worse. 
