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Originally Posted by William_the_Bloody
Eisenhower had no governing experience, and he was a good President.
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Ulysses Grant had no experience and he was not. By your logic we might as well just elect any ol' body.
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Trump is a successful business man who made the Forbes list countless of times over the decades, and I tend to be privy to people who have a lot of financial experience.
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1.) He has gone bankrupt multiple times, and shown himself to be competent mostly in being able to trick others into thinking that he is competent (and here we are...)
2.) Business experience ≠ political experience. Everything that he has said about dealing with immigration, Russia and China, and the economy, gives the impression that he is a cretin without the slightest idea what the **** he is talking about.
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I believe you voted for Obama last election, and before entering the senate he was a civil rights lawyer, he had much less governing experience than Mitt Romney who was the governor of Massachusetts.
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He was running against John "Today, we are all Georgians" McCain, not Romney. I didn't vote for Obama because I believed in him in any way as a candidate. I voted for him because McCain's warmongering nutbaggery terrified me. I never had any faith in Obama, due to his original candidacy relying almost entirely on a pretty slogan (Yes we can!).
And after he was elected, he continued to interact with Republicans as he had when campaigning (i.e. antagonizing them to whip up the liberal base, rather than make the slightest attempt to actually work with them). I consider that to have showed a lack of governing competence, and had I bothered to vote, I would have voted for Romney, as he had previously shown that he could work with a Democratic legislature to get things done, which shows actual competence, which -- along with a willingness to work with the other side -- is something we desperately need.
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and yes I would have voted Obama over Romney to, because I think the later is a dink.
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See above.
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If you want governing experience both Jeb Bush, and Chris Christie are on the ticket. Trump is smart enough though, to have a strong team around him.
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I haven't been keeping up with the election, but assuming I were using my vote as anything but an excuse to troll the American electoral system, I would vote for anyone, ANYONE, but an idiot like Trump. I actually rather liked the idea of voting for Christie before he showed himself to be a political bully with the whole ****ing-up-traffic-in-retaliation-for-a-political-slight thing. Before then I thought that he might actually be effective in dealing with the Democrats.
The current political climate is so polarized that it is almost pointless to try to accomplish anything, so before we start worrying about pretty much anything else, this country needs to focus on electing leaders who can work together without deadlocking over the most trivial disputes.