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treestar

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1. Good points!

Reply to SoCalDem (Original post)

Fri Jul 27, 2012, 10:56 AM

Jul 2012

Useful for right wingers now claiming that running a successful business means one would make a good President. And the Mittwit cannot really be credited with that as he was born into it - it's more of an argument for Ross Perot or the likes of Steve Jobs. And we know Steve Jobs didn't care about the common good.

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When "businessmen" run for the presidency, we should run away from them. [View all] SoCalDem Jul 2012 OP

Good points! treestar Jul 2012 #1

Actually ... 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2012 #3

I agree. Not that there aren't businessmen Bluerthanblue Jul 2012 #2

Reminds me of Republican people that I've had conversations with about.... BlueJazz Jul 2012 #4

"common good" Proud Liberal Dem Jul 2012 #8

this thought hit me as well Bluerthanblue Jul 2012 #5

We REALLY shouldn't want to have somebody in office whose "business experience" Proud Liberal Dem Jul 2012 #6

I don't want rMoney running the country like a business -- and I certainly don't nichomachus Jul 2012 #7

For-profit corporations are run solely in the interests of stockholders, not customers. Tommy_Carcetti Jul 2012 #9

rMoney is a corporate raider. lpbk2713 Jul 2012 #10