These twelve traits are in no particular order, although I would probably say the first one is the most important one for me:
- kindness
- wisdom
- humility
- collaborative
- fairness
- compassion
- honesty
- sense of humor
- enthusiasm
- creative
- peaceful
- sense of gratitude
To me, character matters, a lot, in our leaders.
I think it would be impossible to find a President who has all the same views on the issues that I have, but if the President had these twelve traits, I would certainly respect and support his leadership.
I do think there is one person who would have met all of my requirements, but he passed away in 2003.
Fred Rogers.
We could use a man like Mr. Rogers today.
By the way, here’s the official trailer for the new movie about Mr. Rogers, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, starring Tom Hanks. The movie will be released on November 22.
I want the U.S. to be a beautiful neighborhood.
*image from National Geographic
Uh oh! 0 for 12. I’m probably old-fashioned, but I would still like to think character matters. No, this is not my biased political view because I think Ronald Reagan (R) and Barack Obama (D) were both men of character.
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Count me as old-fashioned as well. And I’d agree about Reagan and Obama.
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Fred Rogers or anyone with those qualities would be one hell of a president.
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I agree. Someone like that would surround him or herself with good people who collectively would do a wonderful job running our country.
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I’ve just read a similar concern on presidency in a post at BloggingEinstein WP.
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thanks for the heads-up on the BloggingEinstein post. I’ll go take a look!
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Perhaps these traits or requirements gets, or atleast meant to be included in selection process.
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fred is one of my idols
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And one of mine too. I even went out and bought a zipper cardigan so I could be more like him!
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Great post! I would settle for any one who has at least a few of those traits!
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As would I!
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Excellent post Jim. I agree with all of those traits on the list. I tried like hell to see if any of them describe the current occupant of White House. The only one I could come up with, possibly, is enthusiasm. And even then, it’s related to how enthusiastic he seems on dividing the country and wrecking our democracy. So, in other words, he gets an ‘F’ on your traits test.
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indeed he does. I wonder what he could find to say to try and demean Mr. Rogers…
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Even Jesus Christ wouldn’t be off limits with him!
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quite true!
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I think your current President has enthusiasm atleast? Lol!
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misdirected enthusiasm…
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🤪
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We don’t get to vote for a president, just a political party.
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I’ll have to read up a bit on how that works – South Africa, correct?
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