Honestly..America needs a business man as president

[Jello Biafra]

more like a scientist or an engineer


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I doubt we will ever get a person of science just because they would not be able to pull off the slick shyster shyt in speeches like a lawyer or businessman cna when campaigning. A scinetis or engineer would be too cerebral for the average voter to "connect" with because they wouldn't be serving up platitudes and catchy slogans every time they opened their mouth.

 

[Alexander The Great]

Presidents don't create jobs any fukking way

 

[teacher]

exactly. whats good for a business doesn't equate to whats good for a country. micro vs macro economics. we need a fukkin economist for a president, not a politician

you realize businesses do what they do because of the teachings of economics



we need a communist as president to redistribute the wealth by force if necessary

 

[Silver Surfer]

at yall mad

 

[Silver Surfer]

fukking thread sucks

Why are you in this forum?...you dropped out of Community College...live with your parents...and eat bugs.....what makes you think you can post here comfortably.....

 

[AV Dicey]

That nickname was funny because GW hadn't actually successfully run a gotdamn thing in his career as a businessman.

Are you claiming that he did not succesfully run the "1st place Texas Rangers" with luminaries such as 'pudge', Raffy and fan favorite Juando to the top of the baseball mountain whilst retroactivley applying the 2012 republican campaign theme to publicy fund the buliding of The Ballpark at Arlington?

 

[MustafaSTL]

Trolling is so funny to some people.

 

[filial_piety]

I doubt we will ever get a person of science just because they would not be able to pull off the slick shyster shyt in speeches like a lawyer or businessman cna when campaigning. A scinetis or engineer would be too cerebral for the average voter to "connect" with because they wouldn't be serving up platitudes and catchy slogans every time they opened their mouth.

All true, however technocrats have never really been "people" persons and are essentially about the bottomline albeit in another way. Much like a business person, they are about maximizing efficiency and calculations. It never really panned out with them in the Soviet Union.

The closest people that I can think of that came from a STEM background was Ron Paul who was a physician, and Herman Cain who majored in mathematics and was employed in ballistics with a degree in Comp Sci (both Republicans btw).


Aside from that I'd like to see some regular people running the country for a change both in the Presidency, Congress and in the Cabinets. Seems like it's run by stuffed shirt sherry drinking Hah-vad graduates and Yalies who are career politicians. The last President with a regular degree was Regan who was a graduate of Eureka College.

 

[Jello Biafra]

Aside from that I'd like to see some regular people running the country for a change both in the Presidency, Congress and in the Cabinets. Seems like it's run by stuffed shirt sherry drinking Hah-vad graduates and Yalies who are career politicians. The last President with a regular degree was Regan who was a graduate of Eureka College.

The electorate though is quick to clown a "regular" person nowadays. If a candidate doesn't come from one of the Ivy League schools then they will be immediately painted as "uneducated" or "not educated enough" by the media and in turn will be dismissed by the voting public.

 

[filial_piety]

The electorate though is quick to clown a "regular" person nowadays. If a candidate doesn't come from one of the Ivy League schools then they will be immediately painted as "uneducated" or "not educated enough" by the media and in turn will be dismissed by the voting public.

Yeah I could see that, funny enough it doesn't even seem as if the ivy name brand alone will make you Presidential. If you don't have Harvard, Princeton or Yale mounted on your wall you can basically forget it. Darmouth, Brown and Cornell still get the look while Columbia and UPENN get the

 

[Habit]

I doubt we will ever get a person of science just because they would not be able to pull off the slick shyster shyt in speeches like a lawyer or businessman cna when campaigning. A scinetis or engineer would be too cerebral for the average voter to "connect" with because they wouldn't be serving up platitudes and catchy slogans every time they opened their mouth.

Engineers and scientis probably hate politics more than religion.

 

[No1]

The electorate though is quick to clown a "regular" person nowadays. If a candidate doesn't come from one of the Ivy League schools then they will be immediately painted as "uneducated" or "not educated enough" by the media and in turn will be dismissed by the voting public.

Yeah I could see that, funny enough it doesn't even seem as if the ivy name brand alone will make you Presidential. If you don't have Harvard, Princeton or Yale mounted on your wall you can basically forget it. Darmouth, Brown and Cornell still get the look while Columbia and UPENN get the

What kind of fake ass world do you guys live in? Harvard and Yale may dominate the highest office, but that's because those two schools basically run DC anyway.

If anything, the electorate has been anti-academic for a minute. They've wanted the "guy you can have a beer with."

What's more ridiculous is that you guys want someone to win just because they didn't go to an ivy. Obama and Romney are both ivy-educated --> nothing alike. Bush --> ivy educated, still got clowned for not being bright.

Did John McCain go to Harvard or Yale?

BTW, the Solicitor General and Attorney General both went to Columbia so I don't know about that school getting by anyone. BTW, who was the last person from Princeton to get elected? What in the world are you talking about?

 

[YBE]

exactly. whats good for a business doesn't equate to whats good for a country. micro vs macro economics. we need a fukkin economist for a president, not a politician

Economics major

 

[Dooby]

Yup.

Breh it's a coincidence you posted Neil DeGrassi Tyson.

I believe he could be a great politician/scientist.

He's such a great speaker. Has great charisma.

That man's my hero

 

[Mr Uncle Leroy]

look at mitt romneys business history...he turn a lot of companies into debt tankers, taking over management and the companies never became tough to get out of the debt...but in the due process, mitt got rich, but most of the companies/concept failed