The Value of Experience

I wonder how many voters feel as I do: the 'plumbers' act as if I work for them, instead of the other way around, and the plumbers aren't listening paying attention to the job I want done, but are off 'remodeling' my home (my country) into a bloated dysfunctional edifice which is less livable and grossly unaffordable.
Time to fire the plumbers and train some new ones. I can live with newbie mistakes. I can't afford the extravagance and imperiousness of the old experienced hands.

As a retired operations director of a major corporation, I can say with some authority that anyone who has made it to CEO knows all about "politics". I've known a number of CEO's and the common thread among them was the feeling of powerlessness to effect significant change. "Like trying to turn an aircraft carrier around" was a common analogy. The point being, a successful CEO knows how to persuade, cajole and threaten to get things done, they have to. So... the jump from CEO to politics makes a lot of sense to me.

"Would you hire a plumber who'd never done any plumbing to fix your pipes."...."Politics is different"....."Politics looks easy until you try it" Susan's words beg the question " Would you hire an incompetent, America hating, corrupt, islam sympathizing, community organiser, who openly supports anti white racists and jew haters and Chicago corruptocrats to be President of the United States?

A confederancy of the sublimely stupid and ignorant, fooled by a leftist media that deliberately hid the true Obama from them hired a community organiser who was entirely unsuiteable and devoid of administrative experience to be the chief administrator and President.

Obama may be president in name and title but wholly unpresidential in competence, leadership and or any other attribute expected of POTUS. Get this enemy within prince of fools out of office asap.

Susan -- Do you really think we're upset that Carly Fiorina doesn't like Barbara Boxer's hair, and is likely unschooled regarding the hazards of live microphones? That kind of thing is interesting to experienced politicians and their advisors, but also illustrates just how outside the mainstream the insiders really are. I'm way more worried about inexperienced executives partying instead of rolling up their sleeves to cut the bureaucratic red tape to aid the affected states deal with a massive oil spill. By the way, Boxer's hair is a train wreck.

Why didn't you write that article about experience when Obama was running for president. The most inexperienced politician to ever be president.

"Sure, it should be no one's business but her own." Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Honesty and fidelity are core values. Anyone who would cheat on and lie to the one he/she has promised to love above all others would not hesitate to lie to me. I have a right to know that going in.

Tell Susan that this is exactly the problem Mr. Obama has. He possesses no experience running anything. He has proven what a lack of experience proves.

Re: Roxanna Comment: #6 Posted by: Roxanna Fri Jun 11, 2010 11:34 AM
" 'Sure, it should be no one's business but her own.' Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Honesty and fidelity are core values. Anyone who would cheat on and lie to the one he/she has promised to love above all others would not hesitate to lie to me. I have a right to know that going in."
-- Gee Roxanna, isn't it about time we get past the Clintons?

What good is experience if it is in consistently making mistakes. Who would keep hiring an "experienced" plumber who regularly floods the bathroom because of his errors. Success in running a business is worth a lot more than a pattern of passing laws as a legislator that have impoverished the taxpayers and left the state or the nation in debt.
posted by Jay Harris
Saturday, June 12, 2010 12:17 p.m.

Susan, Let's look at the experienced "plumbers" running for major office in California: Barbara Boxer, who in 18 years in the Senate managed to get only 5 bills passed (3 naming courthouses, 1 naming part of a river in Virginia and 1 regarding retrofiting buildings for earthquakes). She is the reason that 40,000 farm jobs in the San Juaquin Valley are lost since, as chair of the Environmental Committee, she could have gotten an exemption from the Endangered Species Act for a silly 3 inch fish which is not even edible. But she cares more about eco-terrorists than she does the 36% unemployment in the San Juaquin Valley and the resultant increases in agricultural costs. Former California governor Jerry Brown: Knowing for 2 years that he is running, he hasn't even proposed a plan And yet he's taken most of his money from the unions which have bankrupted this state. California represents over 16% of the US economy, record unemployment and 30% of the nation's welfare recipients and, as attorney general, Jerry Brown hasn't even enforced the laws on the books (see ACORN and Prop 8). But he managed in the first 2 days of the general election to compare Meg Whitman to the Nazis. We don't need that in Sacremento.

Susan, Let's look at the experienced "plumbers" running for major office in California: Barbara Boxer, who in 18 years in the Senate managed to get only 5 bills passed (3 naming courthouses, 1 naming part of a river in Virginia and 1 regarding retrofiting buildings for earthquakes). She is the reason that 40,000 farm jobs in the San Juaquin Valley are lost since, as chair of the Environmental Committee, she could have gotten an exemption from the Endangered Species Act for a silly 3 inch fish which is not even edible. But she cares more about eco-terrorists than she does the 36% unemployment in the San Juaquin Valley and the resultant increases in agricultural costs. Former California governor Jerry Brown: Knowing for 2 years that he is running, he hasn't even proposed a plan And yet he's taken most of his money from the unions which have bankrupted this state. California represents over 16% of the US economy, record unemployment and 30% of the nation's welfare recipients and, as attorney general, Jerry Brown hasn't even enforced the laws on the books (see ACORN and Prop 8). But he managed in the first 2 days of the general election to compare Meg Whitman to the Nazis. We don't need that in Sacremento.

Petty, Petty and am I surprised with the Petty comments. NO, but I did expect bashing in a way only you can. Inexperience oh my, look at our Commander in Chief. Did Sarah Pallin have implants? Wow, who cares when the country is falling a part. Write an article about how the health care reform is going to affect us. Did everyone know that the rates are going up for private insurance and if your employer wants to change companies he can not? He must send you to Obamacare!!!!! Did everyone know that whatever your employer pays for your health insurance it considered income when it comes to do your taxes? Instead of petty stuff, write about the important destructive acts from this administration. The worse natural disaster in this country's history and how Obama is going to try to pass his energy bill during it? Never let a disaster go to waste???? I have to wonder the real facts to that oil leak. Why did the president refuse help from experts from other country's and even Alaska? I hear a WW11 Vet say in a grocery store that it was sabatoge so Obama could get his agenda through. HMMM Could he be right? These are articles you need to write Susan and you do not have the guts to do it.

To get it right, the plumber must know and follow building code. The constitution is our code, if not followed then fire them! Inexperienced representatives following our constitution is a far better choice.

Susan, A friend of mine just told me that she heard that George Soros is behind the cleanup of the oil spill in the gulf because he is going to make a lot of money off the oil off the coast of Brazil. Soros is controlling our President along with the other radicals and that is why he wants to shut down the drilling in the Gulf ????? She stated the top men of BP oil pulled their stocks in the company right before the explosion. HMMMM Wow have your party stooped to a new low!!!!

Susan, A friend of mine just told me she heard that the clean up of the oil in the Gulf is being controlled by George Soros. Soros will make a lot of money if the oil rigs in the gulf are shut down by his investment in the oil off the shore of Brazil. She stated she also heard that the CEO and other high up in BP withdrew their stocks in the company right before the explosion HMMMM and now President Obama is being controlled by the unions so he will not allow other countries to help only those under the union rule HMMMM Maybe that old WW11 Vet was right?? Wow the democratic party has stooped to a new low. God Bless America I sure hope people wake up!!

Try to focus on one topic

First off I would make sure my plumber could fix the toilet before he would be hired because you see you can even check the credentials of a plumber same as a politician. I guess it would seem to be with the current times to allow an eye doctor (Rand Paul) or CEO Carly Fiorina or the very wealthy businesswoman Meg Whitman run for office, I mean why not a Jr. freshman Senator who was barely in that position for about 2 years ran and he became the President of the United States. You see it's in style now to run I mean anybody can run for something if they really want to just get your signatures and better make sure you have money to fund your campaign and hell why not go for it if that 's what one wants to do. Who is anybody to say who should run for a political office when O.J.T. is the style of today and that is on the job training like our President is learning right now O.J.T. I respect the office of the Presidency and it is an office that should have a leader and my choice was Hillary Clinton who is still the most experienced and more popular than the President. The analogy is simple and the writer is saying basically when the primaries are over and the debates are over and the winner is declared ,that winner will soon learn what it is all about and why can't they learn O.J.T. like our President. Who is anyone to say what gifts one might have to bring to the political arena and this is a free country and I'm sure many voter's are finding out the sad way that it was Hillary Clinton that cracked 18 million and more than that. I supported her and I still do and when I see what the Obama administration is doing right now in the midst of his testing such as the oil spill although it is not technically his fault yet he is getting heat for his response to this tragic crises and I am so tired of seeing that poor oil covered flamingo stuck in the oil over and over and that is the scene that will resonate in people's minds the poor wildlife suffering. I ask why a President would put HR as his priority the first 1 1/2 years of his Presidency instead of focusing on jobs ,jobs and jobs like a laser beam and he passes such a partisan HR and he boasted he would be so bipartisan and this very unpopular HR was passed without one single Republican vote and even former D.N.C. Howard Dean remarked he would pass nothing than the Obama HR bill.He Then said he would have the most ethical cabinet and 4 or 5 could not accept cabinet positions because they didn't pay their taxes. I think of Tom Dachel and Gov. Bill Richardson (a Clinton traitor who told Bill Clinton about 3 times he would endorse Hillary and he didn't) I'm glad he didn't get a cabinet post and then there is Treasurer Timothy Guithener who didn't pay taxes but he is still in there anyway. There have been many attempts to attack our Country on Obama's watch ,Fort Hood, the Xmass underwear bomber and Jihad Jane and most recent the loaded car in Times Square where a man was on a no fly list and got on the plane anyway. Then of coarse most recently Congressman Joe Sestek of P.A. comes out on t.v. to tell us how the White House offered him a job not to run against the Republican switched Democrat Arlen Spector and another guy said he too was offered a job not to run a primary. Then of coarse we have a raging war still going on in Afghanistan and a failed 2nd stimulus and 99 weeks of unemployment running out and still no jobs for the American people who lost jobs from all walks of life. The treasurer Timothy said 2010 would be difficult for the unemployed and the unemployment rate is still unacceptably high. If that is so then why did Nancy Pelosi say recently that there would be no tier 5 to help families and unemployed suffering through no fault of their own and they are called the 99 ers. I say so what difference does it make now if the Republicans want to vote for an eye Doctor or a wealthy businesswoman who' feel the Americans have had enough and you talk about experience . I learned jobs by O.J.T. and I'm sure many have as I think back to my first job as a 16 year old at a Country Club and that was O.J.T. I hate when I hear journalists and you know who they are and some writers write that "Obama shut down the Clinton Machine" and I say to that bull. It took a former President Bill Clinton to go and rescue those two female journalist in N. Korea and it took a Bill Clinton to go and campaign for Blanch Lincoln when everyone said she was done and she pulled a surprise. I wonder could that be the experience we need like the Clintons because as I see it they have never been shut down by Obama and I have noticed that when Obama feels in trouble or has a problem that seems bigger than him who does he call? He calls Bill Clinton. Hillary said it best on the campaign trail and that is EXPERIENCE MATTERS" and she was so right and she fought a good fight but I feel she was screwed. I now see a surging of Republican and tea party woman winning in primaries were men used to win so handily. I wonder did Hillary Clinton awaken the woman from the sleep of death so that they now know they have the power and the tools and the know how and bravery to run for something no matter what previous job they held. I think was it only just 2 short years ago and we have seen a Jr. Freshman President who is a gifted orator but not so much a leader now needs to own up to the fact that this is his administration and stop the blaming and stop the non sense and start to shows some real leadership where there is not so many broken promises,where he listens to what Americans instead of shoving his own unpopular agenda down American people's throats. We need change but this is not the change I voted for and I still can only imagine what a great experienced leader such as Hillary Clinton would have been . Hillary was my first choice for President and I do not and would not want any President to fail in their administration. I however would have preferred Hillary Clinton to answer the 3:00 a.m. phone call at the White House, WHY? because as she said it "EXPERIENCE MATTERS" and O.J.T. (on job training seems to be vogue these days)

on Hannity 2 nights ago, NYC civil rights activist , an Obama supporter in the general election, said he is tired of Obama's words and inaction. He said we had a good alternative to Obama.