"Holding Drake responsible for the ruling of BRAC would be foolish and unwarranted. But Bearing Drift decided just a little while ago that we should base this election on character when they released charges brought against Kellam when he was 19. They say we should judge Commissioner Kellam based on what he did over 25 years ago. If they want to judge character, I am game. I say we judge Congresswoman Drake on what she did LAST YEAR, while in office. I don't want somebody who can't be bothered to wake up and pay attention to the single most important meeting for the District in over a decade serving in Congress." -ttp://notlarrysabato.typepad.com/doh/2006/10/sleeping_beauty.html#trackback
Character. What is character?
"Moral character or character is an evaluation of a person's moral and mental qualities. Such an evaluation is subjective--one person may evaluate someone's character on the basis of their virtue, another may consider their fortitude, courage, loyalty, honesty, or piety.
Developing true character happens when we focus on character qualities such as: truthfulness, diligence, obedience, loyalty and courage. Each quality overlaps the other. For example, you cannot be truthful and dishonest at the same time. Some character qualities, such as punctuality, can be developed through practice. To practice will require one to have discipline, which is also a desirable character quality.
What is true character? Character is the cumulative effect of the most desirable character qualities found in a person. Heroes exhibit traits such as self sacrifice and bravery. Heroes are men and women of exemplary character.
There are six core valuescharacterater or "pillars of character." These are: Trustworthiness, Resperesponsibilityilty, Fairness, Caring, and Citizenship." -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_character
You might be able to judge Thelma Drakes "Character", by saying she was disrespectful by not paying close attention to the speaker. This of course is on the bases that you can prove she was sleeping, so I thought, well what if she was blinking. How unbelievable would this be? So, I looked up the word blinking and here is what i found.
"Women and men do not differ in their rates of spontaneous blinking (M.J. Doughty, 2002, Optom Vis Sci), averaging around 10 blinks per minute in a laboratory setting."-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinking
So, a human blinks 10 times a minute, how long was this meeting? I looked for a time frame, but could not find one, so I will speculate, that it was at least an hour. If the BRAC meeting was 1 hour long, and a photographer took only one picture, he would have, a 1 in 6 chance of getting a picture of her blinking. That is if he only took one picture.
I have had thousands of pictures taken of me, that look like I am doing something I am not, so to say her eyes are closed and she is leaning to the right, therefore she must be sleeping, is ridiculous, it seems very unlilkely to me. If a video feed were avalible, then we would have seen it by now, this is the internet, and hundreds, maybe thousands of people are searching for anything, that puts a politician in a bad light, republican or democrat.
I find the credibility of NLS to be weakened, and hope for the sake of being able to debate, that he will stick to the facts.
Even if these alegations are true, it is very harsh to defame someones character, on the bases of one such thing, as being sleep depraved at a meeting.
If one mistake means a man or woman no longer has "Character" then we are all without character.
Il carattere dell'uomo è giudicato dal Padre!-Lo Scrivano
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