Character is destiny
by Tom Sullivan
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. - Constitution of the United States, Article II, Section 1Jon Stewart wonders what I've been wondering: Did the Founders err in merely specifying chronological age as a prerequisite for the presidency and overlook psychological age? We're speaking of Donald Trump, of course. From Raw Story:
“Are you eligible to run if you’re a man-baby, or a baby-man?” Stewart asked David Axelrod during a live taping of Axelrod’s podcast in Chicago. “I don’t know if they’re referred to as man-baby Americans. He is a man-baby. He has the physical countenance of a man and a baby’s temperament and hands.”
Stewart recalled the argument that ensued online when the Republican presidential candidate revealed his full name on Twitter, prompting the show to begin calling him “F*ckface von Clownstick.”
“I don’t know that a man-baby can be president,” Stewart explained. “Character is destiny. And he is the most thin-skinned individual.”
Character is destiny. What you see is what you get.