In a previous commentary below -- about the Boeing Company -- saying I'm glad Barbara doesn't have a voice in deciding who should be allowed to work on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner? That I would be uncomfortable traveling 40,000 feet in the air if I knew Boeing hired people who weren't qualified to do their job? Well, a friend of mine, a former executive at the Boeing Company, responded: 

            "With the enforcement of affirmative action, even the Boeing Company is force to hire engineers, machinists and other critically important workers to fill quotas for sex (includes: heterosexual-male, heterosexual-female, homosexual-male, homosexual-female, transgender-formerly male, transgender-formerly female, undecided-male, undecided-female; race (fifteen identities); ethnicity (who knows, they make these up daily).

            If a white male (the only unprotected gender/ethnicity combination) dares to question these quotas he is first sent by HR [Human Resources] to a series of gender/ethnicity sensitivity training classes. On the rare occasion he is still employed after these brainwashing sessions, he is demoted to the responsibility for putting Sparkletts water bottles on the coolers on nights and weekends. Should he still be hanging around after this HR action, he will be part of a RIF (Reduction-In-Force). This successfully stifles most white males. For the die-hards, under the Clinton Administration, the next HR action was Arkancide."

            He followed up with these comments:

            "Some other words I thought of after I had sent the email, in terms of the Boeing Company's sensitivity training are "multiculturalism" and "gender-neutral." Political correctness training, enforcement, compliance and have become one of the most lucrative career paths on the "fast track" to executive rock stardom.

            Another term used prolifically by "researchers" applying for taxpayer money at the pig trough of the NIH (National Institutes of Health) is that certain "races/ethnicities" are "under-represented" in certain career tracks. That's a sure-fire term (under-represented) that will get your grant application quickly approved for funding. One of our friends at LLU [Loma Linda University] put us onto "under-represented" as the road to becoming a superstar in NIH research.

            Research into these eugenics-inspired social engineering agendas is no a large and rapidly growing industry of its own. Guess who hires all those new graduates from university programs such as "Womens' Studies?"

            Qualifications for a job, such as a MSEE, BSEE, or degrees in Mechanical Engineering, or Metallurgy have become of little consequence since the preponderance of these American degree-holders are accursed, oppressed, unwanted white, heterosexual males. Many of Boeing's most important technical jobs have long ago been out-sourced to small engineering firms in India, Pakistan and Taiwan. These engineers benefited from the old English educational system. They have excellent math and science education. Their English is grammatically flawless, unlike the US college grads who every sentence contains meaningless, time-wasting phrases such as "like" and/or "you know."

         Don't get me started. Sorry to waste so much of your time. I could rant on and on about this topic." 

I found my friend's comments enlightening. And they caused me to reflect -- perhaps I'm wrong to hold Barack Obama to a standard requiring candidates who want to become President of the United States to bring good qualifications to the table. Perhaps it doesn't really matter if our president is a dummy. If he's able to get elected maybe that is qualification enough. After all, if the Boeing Company can hire people without experience to build the 787 Dreamliner -- an airplane I will ultimately sit in, at 40,000 feet in the air, traveling at near the speed of sound. Why should I be concerned if Obama isn't qualified to be president? Clearly, I have far more important -- life threatening -- concerns to deal with.

Bill & Hillary Clinton had lots of friends when they occupied the White House. Seems they are learning it is difficult to know who your real friends are when you occupy a position of power.

I was reading an article on the TimesOnline web site with a headline proclaiming "Barack Obama sacks adviser over talks with Hamas." Then I noted a commentary submitted by Barbara M. Sims of Buffalo, New York, saying she can't find the word "experience" anywhere in the Constitution of the United States of America.

Barbara has a point. Politics is the only good-paying job I know that doesn't require a college degree, special training, talent -- or skills -- or ability. It's the perfect career for Barack Obama.

But I was thinking -- I'm glad Barbara Sims doesn't have a voice in building Boeing Aircraft's new 787 airliner. I could never rest easy at 40,000 feet in the air knowing Boeing employees didn't need to know anything about their jobs.

Shortly after I posted my first article on Townhall.com I received an email message suggesting that I view this website:

Let's see -- I was alive during Franklin D. Roosevelt's tenure in the Oval Office. Don't recall much about it except that America was at war and there was gasoline rationing and at nighttime black curtains were pulled over windows to keep light from escaping -- in case of an invasion. But I vividly recall Harry S. Truman's presidency. Mostly, like many young people, I enjoyed calling him by a name that played off his middle initial. I was too young to think much about mundane political policies and the like. What I did hear about Truman was negative, not unlike the media bilge of today. After reading David McCullough's book called "Truman" I've come to have far more appreciation for the little man.