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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
It's not the background, it's the idea of running for President without bothering to, say, be a governor or Senator first.
There is a craft to politics, to understanding how one accomplishes things by building bridges and consensus, by working with varied groups of people and elected officials with their own concerns, petty and profound, that one doesn't learn well from the outside.
If you look at those who have come to it without that training and background, people like Eisenhower and Hoover, you see administrations that simply struggle and accomplish little or nothing. The Rockefellers, Roosevelts, and Kennedys all started below President and worked up (granted, only two of those three made it, but none of them though it was below them to learn the trade).
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I see your point here. Govt is not business.
But Schultz is a unique experiment I think is worth undertaking. Too many politicians at high levels are established-to-old money (Bushes, Rockefellers, Kennedys). These people don’t know anything about how the economy works except at the CEO or investor levels. I don’t think we’ve ever had anyone with the breadth of experience of a Schultz run for high office.
I also want him to run to save us from Mark Cuban, who thinks he knows everything, and has some good ideas, but would be an awful, egomaniacal statesman.
