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Originally Posted by savas
So you're saying a business man president that was successful in the private sector raised entitlement spending, raised the debt and supported TARP? Doesn't this throw a wrench in the idea that a lot of private business experience is a prerequisite for a successful presidency?
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I have NEVER said that private business experience is a prerequisite for the office of the President. What I HAVE said is that the President needs EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE! In other words he should have run an organization BEFORE trying to run the US.
Examples:
Bill Clinton, former Governor
George HW Bush, former business owner, former head of the CIA
Ronald Reagan, former Governor and President of the Screen Actors Guild
George W Bush, former business owner, former baseball team managing partner, former governor
Jimmy Carter, former Governor and large scale farmer
You have to go back to Gerald Ford to find someone with no executive experience in the Whitehouse. Before that Richard Nixon a former governor, then LBJ and Kennedy, both no executive experience. Edit: At least JFK had commanded a small crew on a PT Boat. That's a darn site more than B.O. has ever run.
Eisenhower? Let me see, I think he ran a little military operation one time. Even Truman had run a Habadachery.
Being in the Senate is NOT executive experience. Being a community organizer is NOT executive experience. Being an admtted enthusiastic drug user is NOT executive experience..... well, that depends on whether or not he was dealing drugs I suppose. Maybe he should have listed that on his resume if he had done it. Wait a minute..... he has withheld all sorts of things from his resume, so I guess it's no surprise he left that off if he did it.