In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.
We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.
A great many of us have been concerned about the presidential nomination system... whether or not we have drifted into a system that simply doesn't work so well any more.
It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.
We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test.
You need a certain standard of literacy, moral and ethical values, to be able to run a one man, one vote system.
We have an immigration system in this country that not only doesn't work, in many cases it doesn't even make any sense.
Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
We're able to choose our candidate not based on gender or sex or anything else other than their ideas.