Is it right for a candidate for president of the USA to not answer questions about his college fraternity?

Question

And when there are 2 candidates from the same college fraternity (what are the odds of that?) who both won't discuss it, are they showing more loyalty to the frat than to the nation?

Answer 1

Of course, he doesn't HAVE to answer the questions, but we have a right to ask them, and to be suspicious when there is too much secrecy involved in his past life.

With George W., the even more serious questions had to do with his avoiding the draft during Vietnam (esp. given his campaign's "swift-boating" of his opponents, who did serve honorably in Vietnam), his going AWOL from his national guard position after $$$ had been spent in training him as a pilot, his using his staff as governor of Texas to have these records taken and (apparently) destroyed, his background as a drinker and user of drugs (once an addict, always an adict; and esp. once an addictive personality, always an addictive personality), and his business failures and the way he was always bailed out by his family and their Saudi friends.

The evidence of the weaknesses in his character were always there tp be seem bu anyone willing to read beyond the newspaper headlines and TV commercials. But where were the investigative reporters willing to bring the facts into the mainstream press and the publishers willing to tell the whole story? The big corporations who own and control mainstream media didn't want the story told, so it wasn't. They did want to emphasize the misquotation of Al Gore about inventing the internet, so it was emphasized over and over again, never analyzed in context, just emphasized. They did want to emphasize the "swift-boaters'" lies about John Kerry, so they did. They did want Gore and Kerry to look bookish and "Ivy League," so they did. The wanted George II to look "good ole boy" and religious, so he did. They didn't want Dan Rather to get away with telling the whole story about George II, so they made sure there was a false source in the woodpile so that all the attention could be diverted to that one source, NOT to the whole story. And Dan Rather had to be punished, even on into retirement.

What we have learned from his administration, of course, is that George W. is addicted to secrecy, not to mention to the manipulation of the news, the manipulation of facts, misstatements and deceptions, and the failure to have a good sense of himself and his failures.

As much as I deplore marital infidelity, I have to say that in high positions in government, addictions to dishonesty, secrecy, and arrogance are far more important issues of character than sex with a consenting adult. I wouldn't want my sons or grandsons to grow up with the sexual proclivities of John Kennedy or Bill Clinton, but I wouldn't want my sons or grandsons ever to have to live under the presidency of someone with the secrecy, deception, and arrogance of Richard Nixon or George W.

So, a candidate for president has a right to be secretive, but we citizens have a right to vote against them on issues of character when such secrecy is their way of life!

Answer 2

Yes they are showing more loyalty to the Frat than to the nation. Why would they be ashamed of their past unless it was part of their future? If is the past then admit to it. If it is still part of their lives then they don't want to reveal anything. Skull and Bones comes to mind in this scenario without you mentioning anything about it.

Answer 3

By law the President of the United States must be at least 35 years old. Most are considerably older than that. I would think we would need to know much more than what they did in collage and how much fun they had in their frat house. If this is the most important question to you than you need to rethink how you choose whom to vote for.

Answer 4

Are you in a fraternity/sorority? If no longer, properly i assume I also have a splash explaining to do. in case you have ever watched Ramboo (first blood) or black hawk down, Ramboo and Sgt. hoot had a trouble-free concept that they voiced out in direction of the tip and that i quote " human beings won't in any respect comprehend why we do it." its a similar with fraternities human beings on no account rather comprehend why we do the failings we do, why? properly clearly they have on no account rather been there and accomplished that, they dont comprehend the persons, and the traditions that folk undergo to circulate into, they dont comprehend the sensation which you sense after having undertaken the struggles, to be specific they dont sense the value of the value being paid they only think of they do. seem it up in a latin dictionary Frater/ Fratris - latin word of brother. and then positioned away the daydream hazings ask your self what do brothers do. a individual who has on no account been in a fraternity shouldn't acquire the spectacular to sentence themit as a results of fact they dont rather comprehend it that lots. i'd purely decide to show out that in spite of there's a skinny line between an company being a fraternity or gang team, there continues to be a line.Going returned to the subject remember notwithstanding if to motivate or condemn those agencies, properly i think of that we are already an relatively civilized society with the suited standards, rules and all skill neccessary to ascertain peace and order, so I say purely bypass away the fraternities on my own, I used the word fraternities to declare that they are person communities no longer as an entire, if a Frat crosses the line, they go it, punish them, no longer the whole physique of frats women and adult males persons, no person joined any company to seem undesirable, and each frat needs a sturdy call, and each frat has their with the aid of-rules besides, so in the event that they decide to have a sturdy attractiveness and permit their frat to stay long and proceed latest in a society/community then that is as much as them, how they take care of their contributors. yet I say it returned no person desires to seem undesirable, on occasion it purely appears like that. i'd decide to shout out to all fratsmen and ladies persons available notwithstanding frat you would be that we are all brods and sis in innovations and ideology shall all of us purely keep in mind that we are contributors of Fraternities, Sororities,and Frasorities, no longer gangs. shall we shop it that way.

Answer 5

I say yes, because there conduct in such an organization may be some insight into there personal character. I'm sure most conservatives would disagree, since that means G.W. would have to give up what happened in his skull and bones days, there response would be that, that was Bushes personal life and none of our business, But in my opinion The Monica Lewiski scandal was no ones business but Bill and Hillary's because that was there personal life, but conservative insisted that it be drug into the spot light so why no have Bush tell all about his skull and bones days?

Answer 6

yes , loyalty to that nation has nothing to do with his fraternity unless it is a threat to national security, there is no right to know about his private life, who he has sex with or if he is faithful

Answer 7

Does it really matter what a person does in their frat?

Answer 8

They have the right not say any thing. You have the privilege of voting for some one else, if you feel it matters.

Answer 9

You mean Skull & Bones? Conspiracy.