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Thread #129839   Message #2922481
Posted By: Stringsinger
07-Jun-10 - 01:53 PM
Thread Name: BS: Is it time for a gay president?
Subject: RE: BS: Is it time for a gay president?
The most important thing a chief executive must have is executive skills. It doesn't matter whether a president is of a particular race or sexual orientation.

Here's what an executive does. He/she decides on a course of action based on many different ideas, wades through them all and makes an educated guess.

If an executive is too creative, his/her ideas may abound but get in the way of selection.
If an executive is too insular and not good with people, then those people get left out of the equation when making a decision.

A C.E.O for a corporation is not a good model for a president. They are concerned with the financial interest of the corporation and its shareholders. Remember at one time BP and Goldman Sachs were considered to be top companies. Would you want Lloyd Blankfein or Tony Hayward running the US?

Public service requires a total vision of what is good for the country. When we elect a president, it's important to consider whether that chief executive knows how to run the country and not just how to get elected.

It wouldn't matter if the president had the qualifications mentioned above if he/she were tri-sexual.