…We are absolutely sure that right skill is very useful when doing something new and especially if it is something very important..[...]…

[...]This is a new website on this topic. You can see more about it on the site[...]…

[...]It’s a known truth that skills come pretty handy when doing work for the first time and even more it if is important to us……

…Right skills and knowledge are crucial to do good, quality work in every area of life…..

…If you have skills and experience, these are are very important to make you happy at all things in life….

[...]here are some other links to sites that I link to because I think they are really worth visiting[...]…

What exactly is Dan Seals' base?

He doesn't have an electoral base – he's never won anything. He's never proven he could WIN – in 2 heavily Democratic years.

I ask again, why would Black people vote for this man outside of the fact that he's Black? That's the ONLY thing he could offer. He can't offer any sort of resume to the Black community.

As I said before, there are White candidate, who can actually point to things they've done in the Black community. And Seals has none of that.

He's never WON anything. He doesn't have any sort of legislative record; he doesn't have an electoral base…so, I'm still trying to see how he's so 'electable'.

As for the definition of returns, Akil Amar Reed and Josh Chafetz describe it as :

Following English parliamentary tradition and early Colonial and state practice, the framers made the Senate its own gatekeeper and guardian. Each house of Congress is “the Judge of the Elections, Returns, and Qualifications of its own members,” according to Article 1, Section 5 of the Constitution. At the founding, Senators were elected by state legislatures. If the Senate believed that legislators in a given state had been bribed into voting for a particular candidate, the Senate could refuse to seat him.

Because of the word “returns” in Section 5, what is true of elected Senators is equally true of appointed Senators. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a “Return” in the time of the framers involved a report of an appointment made by a sheriff or other official. If the Senate may refuse to seat a person picked in a corrupt election, it likewise may refuse to seat a person picked in a corrupt appointment process.

And in line with your last statement, why would it not make sense for Reid–or Quinn–the person with the appt power and actual knowledge of Chi-town politicians–to appoint Seals and let Seals work his butt off for two years as Senator while also reaching out to the Black community?

Don't get me wrong–Seals could be the devil himself for all I know. But so far, the biggest argument against him–and the argument for the apparent race baiting of Reid–is that Seals has no ties to the Black community. My whole thing is, what qualifies as sufficient “ties” to the Blk community, and why wouldn't Seals be able to engage in more active outreach while in office?

However, the distinction you make about Powell being elected is not significant in terms of the court ruling. The ruling was that the Senate can only consider the qualifications as set for in the US Constitution, whether the individual is appointed or elected. The only judgment that can be made by the Senate is on the basis of the US Constitution.

In other words, this is about the LAW, not about whether a majority of Senators AGREE., they do not want an individual in the chamber. Their decision is pre-empted by the constitutionality of the process. Is it Constitutional or not? If it is, they have no power beyond that!!

We can take Burris' word. We have no reason not to. He is not accused of anything. Blagojevich is. That is no reason to smear Burris' record, character or word.

Barack Obama didn't have 'NO' ties to the Black community. His political foundation was in the Black community. It was a DIFFERENT path than the Civil Rights Generation, but it was developed in the Black Community.

I'm not from Chicago, so you obviously know more about Chi-town politics than I do, so can I just ask, what do you consider “not ties to the Black community”? What should be the prototype for Black politicians that want a chance to run for statewide office? What checklist do they need to fill to pass the smell test? What kind of ties do White politicians need to have to the Black community to gain their vote?

Basically, I just don't buy into this argument. The way that you have framed it insinuates that Reid suggested Seals just because he apparently has no ties to the Black community, not in spite of that (and I'm assuming here, since, as I noted above, I'm not sure what you mean when you say “no ties to the Black community”). But the converse argument can be made that Reid, and other Dem leaders in the Senate, want to groom future Senators that have an appeal to a cross-section of voters–similar to the strategy that Obama employed after he lost to Rush in 2000. And if that's the case, picking candidates with a broad appeal–what is wrong with that?

And can you explain the “Handpicked Negro” reference. I'm assuming that it has a double meaning–a) that Reid wanted to “handpick” the Black person he wanted for the Senate; but also b) that it is also being used as a slam and/or insult against Seals, and if that is the case, what is the beef with Seals? seriously. What has he done that he should be excluded from the Senate?

And going back to my original question—doesn't your “no ties to the Black community” argument basically cut both ways. Isn't this the SAME argument that the old guard civil rights leaders were making against Obama–that he didn't have enough experience in the Black community and/or the civil rights movement to be President? It seems that way.

What exactly is Dan Seals' base?

He doesn't have an electoral base – he's never won anything. He's never proven he could WIN – in 2 heavily Democratic years.

I ask again, why would Black people vote for this man outside of the fact that he's Black? That's the ONLY thing he could offer. He can't offer any sort of resume to the Black community.

As I said before, there are White candidate, who can actually point to things they've done in the Black community. And Seals has none of that.

He's never WON anything. He doesn't have any sort of legislative record; he doesn't have an electoral base…so, I'm still trying to see how he's so 'electable'.