DNC emails

[Benton]

(07-26-2016, 01:07 AM)JustWinBaby Wrote: So let's get rid of the career politicians - bye Obama, Clintons, Gore, Bernie, Kerry, Bush, and most of the Dem candidates we've had recently (and plenty of Repubs).  Get rid of the silver spoons if you want, and most of the same again and many more.

But there have been plenty of successful business people who have run, and the vast majority (save Trump) had to work their way up a company....yes, including Romney.  To say no one has run that ever held a "middle class job" is demonstrably false.  Most anyone who isn't a career politician like Clinton, or trust fund baby like Bush, started their career at good 'ol fashioned entry level jobs just like you and me.

A middle manager or factory line worker is not capable of running a country.  Sorry, it sounds like a nice idea, but IMO the only people capable of the job are career politicians and Execs who've run large companies. This is readily obvious once you see and understand the gigantic leap from even Sr. Mgmt to the C-suite, even at smaller companies with just a few hundred million in revenues.

The job calls for significant Exec experience.  If you want Joe the Plumber, ok I'm sure he'll make a fine Representative or maybe even a Senator....but no business being near the Oval Office.

I liked Romney. He was out of touch, but I liked him.

That said, there's very few people out of the last few decades who had middle class understanding and got their party's nomination. Dole and Clinton come to mind.

But to the bold, that's what got us here. Career politicians and big companies. I aree, it sounds like an outstanding idea on paper — bring in someone who knows how to find the right people (which is a big part of being successful in business) and let them do what they do best — but it's had mixed results in real world applications. We had that problem in Kentucky years ago when Fletcher got elected, fired everyone and brought in business-minded guys. The result was pretty bad and had even more corruption than recent Democrat administrations, which was saying something.

I don't know if the presidential application has been much better. George Bush I was a businessman turned career politician turned not great president. His son was the same and a worse president.