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Does being a junior senator from Illinois for two years qualify you?
How about being a community organizer?
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Does being a junior senator from Illinois for two years qualify you?
How about being a community organizer?
Yes, obviously.
cawacko
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There is obviously no boiler plate that says if you have done X you will be a successful President. We all look differently at what we feel a President should have in their background.
But my original response to Rana based on her question what I think should be done in the economy stands the same whether it's Obama, Romney or Johnson who wins the Presidency.
(As an aside you said Massachuttes didn't add good jobs during Romney's term. I thought a bunch of state government jobs were added on his watch. Are state government jobs not good ones?)
christiefan915
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How about someone whose only jobs outside politics were as waiter, fitness trainer and Wienermobile driver? Is this the kind of guy we want only a heartbeat away from the presidency?
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The Almighty
The unemployment rate was under 5% when he left office. He was a Republican Governor in a heavily Democratic state.
What success did Carter have in Business?
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The Almighty
How about one who was a community organizer?
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The Almighty
Given the sustained levels of high unemployment, the drop off in labor participation rate, the massive increases in deficit spending... I think you should re-evaluate that.
Big deal, the whole nations was low.
christiefan915
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MA ranking 47th in job creation suggests his abilities weren't so great, no matter what the job. I thought most of them were minimum wage but could be wrong, I haven't looked it up.
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The Almighty
LOL... what was it when he started vs. where he ended.
She said he didn't do a good job with jobs. That is incorrect.
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The Almighty
LOL... tell us again how they came up with the 47th ranking? Seriously, this is the most debunked parroting point the left has... yet they continue to chirp away.
According to factcheck.org
A campaign ad that praises Mitt Romney’s performance as governor of Massachusetts presents a slanted view of his record on jobs, unemployment and taxes. To every claim, there is a “yes, but” qualifier.
The Romney ad claims that as governor, “Romney had the best jobs record in a decade.” Yes — Massachusetts added more net jobs during Romney’s four years in office than during the four-year period of either his predecessor or successor. But — that ignores the national recessions before and after Romney’s time in office. If you look at how Massachusetts stacked up on job creation compared with other states, Romney actually fared worse than his predecessor and successor.
The ad claims Romney “reduced unemployment to just 4.7 percent.” Yes — Massachusetts’ unemployment rate went from 5.6 percent to 4.6 percent under Romney. But — the state’s unemployment rate was slightly lower than the national rate when he took office, and was roughly the same as the national rate when he left office.
The ad claims Romney “balanced every budget without raising taxes.” Yes — Romney never raised personal income taxes. But — in order to balance the budget, Romney increased government fees by hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Romney ad, called “Strong Leadership,” is another in the campaign’s theme of what would happen on “Day 1″ of a Romney presidency, and it serves as push-back against a recent Obama campaign ad that assailed Romney’s record as governor (an ad we found overreached with several claims).
christiefan915
Catalyst
He took over the family agricultural business and became wealthy.
Another successful businessman and mediocre prez was G.H.W. Bush.
cawacko
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Carter became wealthy? According to this CNN piece he left office in debt (the farm fell apart while he was President becasue he wasn't running it but there is nothing to indicate he ever became wealthy).
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1999/07/01/262278/index.htm
hazlnut
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christiefan915
Catalyst
You guys crack me up with the community organizer schtick. He did that for only three years but you think it defines his career.
Obama's jobs: Business International Corporation,[SUP][29][/SUP] then at the New York Public Interest Research Group. Associate at the law firms of Sidley Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990[SUP]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama#cite_note-Who.27s_Who_2008-30[/SUP]; a publishing contract and advance for a book about race relations; a two-year position as Visiting Law and Government Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School[SUP][43][/SUP][SUP][44][/SUP] ; teaching at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years—as a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996, and as a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004—teaching constitutional law.[SUP][45][/SUP] In 1993, he joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a 13-attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996, then of counsel from 1996 to 2004
directing Illinois's Project Vote, a voter registration campaign with ten staffers and seven hundred volunteer registrars.
His books have made him successful.
cawacko
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She was talking about his peanut business before taking office. Not what he did post office.
I answered for myself,is that okay?