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the MaRK asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 10 years ago

Do we really need a career politician as President?

Seems that's all we ever have to choose from. Perhaps someone enjoyed success in business and banking. Your thoughts?

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    Mitt Romney and Herman Cain aren't career politicians so they are your best bet

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    "Perhaps someone enjoyed success in business and banking."

    Yea, or maybe we could just abolish the government and let banks and corporations decide what the laws will be.

    It's shocking that right-wingers can be so ignorant in the age of information. Actually, it's shocking that any humans in a developed 21-st century western democracy can be so ignorant. No wonder the world loves Obama and hates Bush, same as the American people.

  • 10 years ago

    Romney enjoyed success in business and banking. However, the ex-Massachusetts governor does "not have a political career."

  • 10 years ago

    GWe need a true patriot. I'm not talking Hitler but someone who loves the country more than his career or reputation or money. That's the only way and none of these clowns fit the bill.

    Ron Paul the closest but he's got problems too.

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  • 10 years ago

    We don't need another career politician but we do need someone who has pertinent experience that qualifies him or her for the job. Obviously Obama has shown us that the Presidency is not a good place for on the job training. I think it is also obvious that he isn't as smart as he thinks he is or was made out to be. Either that or his ideologies overtake common sense even when his polices have proven to be failures.

  • Rick
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Career politicians are all we have for sure. They spend half their time running for re-election and the other half bowing down to lobbyists for big business. Were screwed.

  • 10 years ago

    Yep. They're pretty much all career politicians. Sadly, I think any third-parties would be the same way.

    I still want more parties, however.

    Source(s): Left-libertarian
  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Here`s what you got for a President with no business experience , and no political experience , and no Patriotic American experience ~~~

    In spite of what Mr. Obama and his worshipers claim ; the facts are simple and compelling. During the 32 month Obama tenure we`ve seen all of the following :

    Greatest destruction of American wealth in history: at least $8.7 trillion

    Highest Unemployment since Carter, officially 9.1%, actual 16 to 20%

    Unemployment for “Black” Americans, officially 16.7%, actual 30%.

    Unemployment for “Black” teen Americans, official: 46.5%, actual 60%.

    First time in history American credit Rating cut to AA-plus

    Historic high number on foodstamps : 45.8 million

    Investment in mythic “Green Jobs:” $80 billion. Where is it?

    Claimed “Green Jobs” created : 255,000

    Cost per “Green Job:” $313,725.50, but where?

    Toxic Asset Repurchase Program: $475 Billion, for what? Asset value? Audit?

    Shovel Ready projects : $787 Billion, none started. Audit?

    Cash for Clunkers : $3 billion that only inflated the used car market for a loss greater than said “investment.”

    Cash for Caulkers : $10 Billion for home improvement, no accounting. Audit?

    Unemployment improvement after $1.5 trillion of government stimulus: +3% claimed improvement.

    Averaged cost of a gallon of gas : $3.57, up 60%!

    75 Major New Regulations, 1,827 Rules amended, all economically inhibiting

    Cost of New Regulations : $1.75+ trillion annually

    Public Debt : $18.8 trillion and growing.

    2012 Federal Proposed Obama Budget: $3.73 trillion

    Percentage of Americans paying no taxes: 51%

    Percentage of Federal Spending from borrowing: 40%

    Percentage of Federal Spending on Entitlements: 60%

    Obama proposals to limit entitlement spending: zero.

    None of Mr. Obama’s projections, predictions or anticipations has come true. “Jobs saved” is a spin, false on its’ face and failed every time.

    Not one Obama policy produced the promised benefits. All his policies have made problems much worse.

    In summation, the astounding fact of the matter is that Mr. Obama appears to think all of these failures are his success. Where is all the money? The man is either totally insane or he and friends have stolen trillions or his agenda is to destroy America. The people are catching on regardless major media "polls." And what religion does Obama serve ? Obama being a student of the socialist / marxist Saul Alinsky knows of this following quote in Alinsky` book , "Rules for Radicals" ~~"True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism, Alinsky taught. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within. Alinsky viewed revolution as a slow, patient process. The trick was to penetrate existing institutions such as churches, unions and political parties.... "Obama is also an Alinskyite.... Obama spent years teaching workshops on the Alinsky method. In 1985 he began a four-year stint as a community organizer in Chicago, working for an Alinskyite group called the Developing Communities Project.... Camouflage is key to Alinsky-style organizing. While trying to build coalitions of black churches in Chicago, Obama caught flak for not attending church himself. He became an instant churchgoer." [ Opening page - Alinsky`s Dedication.... “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history... the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”

  • 10 years ago

    Dr. Ron Paul MD for President USA 2012

  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    No, all the others have really mucked it up.

    Cain Train in `12

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