SS109 wrote: We elected a President without executive experience and little legislative experience and America is suffering because of it right now.
So your answer is to elect the head of a pizza chain who has never served in a political office?
I guess it really depends on who makes it thru the grueling primary process. Really, anyone would be better than Obama. I'm actually shocked that Hillary hasn't thrown her hat in the ring. I think she could win easily (unless Christie gets in). Obama has shown he has no ability or leadership to correct the path we are on. He should acknowledge that and let someone else take a shot. Doesn't mean it isn't hard, he just doesn't have it in him.
Too bad future generations aren't here to see all the great things we are spending their $$ on!!
SS109 wrote: We elected a President without executive experience and little legislative experience and America is suffering because of it right now.
So your answer is to elect the head of a pizza chain who has never served in a political office?
I guess it really depends on who makes it thru the grueling primary process. Really, anyone would be better than Obama. I'm actually shocked that Hillary hasn't thrown her hat in the ring. I think she could win easily (unless Christie gets in). Obama has shown he has no ability or leadership to correct the path we are on. He should acknowledge that and let someone else take a shot. Doesn't mean it isn't hard, he just doesn't have it in him.
Great point. Some people aren't born leaders, and Obama doesn't appear able to learn how to be a good leader.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
outdoor338 wrote: What business has Obama run? what experience does Obama have to be president? Zero!
I love the flip-flop from the last campaign when the Fox News Republicans were claiming Obama wasn't fit to be president because he was only a U.S. Senator. Now you have a guy on your side whose only qualification is he was head of the #9 pizza chain in the U.S. and you think that makes him qualified to run the country. Any of the other Republican candidates have more experience than Cain.
The office of President is more about politics and knowing how Washington works than about running a private sector company.
The experience Obama has to be president is that he IS the president.
After completing his master's degree from Purdue, Cain left the Department of the Navy and began working for The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta as a business analyst. In 1977, he moved to Minneapolis to join Pillsbury, soon becoming director of analysis in its restaurant and foods group in 1978. He was assigned in the 1980s first to analyze and ultimately to take the reins of Burger King, which at the time was a Pillsbury subsidiary, where he managed 400 stores in the Philadelphia area. Under Cain's leadership, his region went in three years from the least profitable for Burger King to the most profitable. This prompted Pillsbury to appoint him President and CEO of another subsidiary, Godfather's Pizza. Aiming to cut costs, Cain over a 14-month period reduced the company from 911 stores down to 420. As a result of his efforts, Godfather's Pizza finally became profitable. In a leveraged buyout in 1988, Cain, Executive Vice-President and COO Ronald B. Gartlan and a group of investors bought Godfather's from Pillsbury. Cain continued as CEO until 1996, when he was asked to resign by the board.
Later that year he became CEO of the National Restaurant Association – a trade group and lobby organization for the restaurant industry – where he had previously been chairman concurrently with his role at Godfather's.[10]
Cain became a member of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in 1992 and served as its chairman from January 1995 to August 1996, when he resigned to become active in national politics.[11] Cain was a 1996 recipient of the Horatio Alger Award.[12]
Cain was on the board of directors of Aquila, Inc. from 1992 to 2008, and also served as a board member for Nabisco, Whirlpool, Reader's Digest, and AGCO, Inc.[13][14][15]
Role in the defeat of the Clinton health care plan
Cain publicly opposed the 1993/1994 health care plan of President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. As president-elect of the National Restaurant Association, he challenged Bill Clinton on the costs of the employer mandate contained within the bill and criticized its effect on small businesses. Bob Cohn of Newsweek described Cain as one of the primary opponents of the plan:
The Clintons would later blame "Harry and Louise," the fictional couple in the ads aired by the insurance industry, for undermining health reform. But the real saboteurs are named Herman and John. Herman Cain is the president of Godfather's Pizza and president-elect of the National Restaurant Association. An articulate entrepreneur, Cain transformed the debate when he challenged Clinton at a town meeting in Kansas City, Mo.. Cain asked the president what he was supposed to say to the workers he would have to lay off because of the cost of the "employer mandate." Clinton responded that there would be plenty of subsidies for small businessmen, but Cain persisted. "Quite honestly, your calculation is inaccurate," he told the president. "In the competitive marketplace it simply doesn't work that way."[17]
Joshua Green of The Atlantic has called Cain's exchange with Clinton his "auspicious debut on the national political stage."[18]
Former George H. W. Bush cabinet member Jack Kemp was so impressed with Cain's performance that he chartered a plane to Nebraska to meet Cain after the debate. Cain credits Kemp with his becoming interested in politics.[19]
Herman Cain (born December 13, 1945) is an American businessman, politician, syndicated columnist, and radio host from Georgia. He is the former chairman and CEO of Godfather's Pizza and a former deputy chairman (1992–94) and chairman (1995–96) of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Before his business career he worked as a mathematician in ballistics as a civilian employee of the United States Navy.[2][3] He lives in the Atlanta suburbs, where he also serves as a minister at Antioch Baptist Church North.
Great point. Some people aren't born leaders, and Obama doesn't appear able to learn how to be a good leader.
