Romney vs Obama

The Chief executive of a Fortune Five Hundred Corporation is the Chief Executive and is considered the leader of the corporation who more or less (to use religious terms) creates the corporation in his own image. He or she has the final word on the direction of said corporation. He or she takes responsibility for the outcome of a corporation's activities. He or she is the person to whom the rest of the corporation in the end answers to. And if anything the CEO takes the credit for all successes and is beaten up over all the failures.
The modern U.S. Presidency has been likened in some quarters to that of the Chief Executive of the Corporation known as the United States of America.  Yes, the president is the Chief Executive of the U.S. though I don't think when the constitution was written that the President was considered as a CEO of a Corporation known as The Unites States simply because no such thing existed. 

Mitt Romney though believes that the President is like the CEO of a Corporation. Why? Because he's been selling us this idea based on his experience as one. I'm too lazy to look up quotes and such but I'm sure they are all over the place.

The problem though as I see it, if in fact he believes he is the CEO of a corporation known as the Mitt Romney campaign and if  he believes he will one day be the CEO of the United States, is that Romney is not acting like the CEO in his own campaign.  He has cobbled together images of himself that he believes will be palatable to the average Republican and hopefully to the average voter. Rather than demonstrating who he really is, he comes off as wooden, out of touch, believing his own press releases, a typical country club old boy walking around with his hand in his jacket pocket. He has not lead the way. He has not taken responsibility and he acts as if he is not being beaten up over his failures and then denies that they have happened.

In short he offers us a leader who would "mail it in," like so many of his class who hang around the country club and don't get their hands dirty doing the work that they are supposed to be doing. Those are the people whose corporations fail. And if the U.S. is a "corporation" as he believes and many pundits say, then with Mitt Romney we can look forward to four years of failure.

Barack Obama offers a far different contrast as a man who is always on the job and always respects and follows through on what his job title as Chief Executive of the U.S. entails. Obama's problem is the problem Presidents have been handing down since Ronald Reagan, namely taking more control of the government instead of allowing for Congress (which is also a problematic matter but that's another story altogether) to do its job the way they should.

This attempt by recent Presidents to subvert the Constitution is an extremely serious policy & constitutional law issue though one that a lot Americans would probably not see the significance of. And obviously is not even thought of during a Presidential campaign. Certainly we don't hear about this from the pundits.  It seems to me that it's another version of "guns and butter." Lyndon Johnson tried to ameliorate the impact of Vietnam by creating the Great Society. Obama in some way has done something similar by attempting to provide better social programs while at the same time seeking the power to subvert parts of the constitution, namely the fourth and the first amendments in the name of "national security."  The fact is it seems that it doesn't affect anyone who thinks they are following the law, that is, until it happens and then it's too late.  

Fortunately a Circuit Court  judge recently denied legislation to the Obama Admin that would further eviscerate the constitution. That's a good thing for us. It also provides a more acceptable reason for me to be able to vote for Obama this year.  Perhaps it will also let the Obama Administration be a little more clear-eyed regarding the Constitution.       

Brilliantly written piece on why the Republican Party has become a pack of liars and if Romney and Ryan win they will destroy the US. 

http://kurteichenwald.com/2012/09/the-five-reasons-why-romneyryan-must-be-defeated-in-2012-and-why-conservatives-should-hope-they-are/


I particularly love this final paragraph:

the GOP has become a childish, self-centered party that is unfit to govern. You don’t need to look any further than in their immature refusal to call the Democratic Party by its real name – instead, they insist on the Democrat Party, the same way that the bully in some 1980s movie would call a character “slob” if his real name was “Bob.” What is the purpose of this? I don’t know. It demeans every Republican candidate when they say it. But it also is of a piece with the Republican inability to engage an elected president from the Democratic party. Republicans didn’t just go after Clinton’s policies – they called him a murderer, a drug dealer, a rapist. They didn’t just go after John Kerry’s policies – they accused him of faking his heroics, of lying his way to a Purple Heart and a Silver Star (in the process raising doubts about the integrity of those awards for every soldier who has won them), and of shooting a boy in the back. They don’t just go after Obama’s policies – they accuse him of being a Kenyan, a socialist, a communist, a euthanizer, and on and on.
Until the Republican party grows up, until they stop lying about economic realities, until they can finally start to behave like they believe in their ideas rather than just demonizing their opponents, then the party is at risk of becoming a minority party forever. Rage, delusions and lies are not the path to power.
I hope.