The "how dare you ask me that." As though we're not permitted to dare such a thing. Which is how it is when you're a CEO in a big company and YOU are the 800-pound gorilla in the room and what you say is law and is not to be questioned unless you wanna risk getting yer ass fired for being insubordinate. Such is life in Corporate America, where you don't talk back to the boss. You keep your mouth shut, or you open it only so far as to say "yes sir!" Because he's at the top of the heap and you - and everyone else around him - is BENEATH him. He's accustomed to out-ranking you. And as CEO he's used to being the one people bow to and obey without question, because they all know he's the guy who can hire and fire. And we all know he likes being able to fire people who serve him.
And the President of the United States is NOT a CEO. He is the highest-ranking PUBLIC SERVANT in the land. All elected officials are PUBLIC SERVANTS. THEY work for US. It's NOT the other way around. And romney doesn't get that. He's never been in a position to get that - except in Massachusetts where, as I understand it, people thought he lost interest after two years in. (Hmmm... like palin?) And he didn't like answering questions back then, either, OR being transparent OR accountable. Which is what you have to be when you work for THE PEOPLE. And it's regular flesh-and-blood people, not the "corporations are people, my friend" people.
The CEO mindset is incompatible with the office of President of the United States. Because the POTUS very much IS INDEED accountable and answerable. The CEO thinks he isn't answerable to anybody. And at the top of the private corporate zigurrat, that's true. Government, however, is neither private nor corporate. And it IS accountable and answerable - to the public. In ways corporations aren't. The object of government is NOT to make a profit. That's what businesses are set up to do. The private sector. NOT the public sector. They're just fundamentally different. And romney doesn't get that. He can't. He has no template for it. Always the boss who never has to answer anybody else's questions because HE's the one who ASKS the questions of everybody lower-ranked than he is. The President, on the other hand, IS answerable to EVERYBODY.
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