Diuretic
Permanently confused
You mean when companies are looking for new CEO's they don't just look for the person who can make the most money, communicate well, and be well liked by the employees? Damn. Please tell me what companies you invest in, so I can avoid them.
I think I didn't make my point clearly enough. I'll strip it down to basics.
The previous posts have gloried in attacking the oratory skills of Obama suggesting that's all he has. I don't know if that's all he has because I haven't seen his resume/cv. But invidious comparisons have been made with two other brilliant orators, Dr Martin Luther King and president John Fitzgerald Kennedy. As well as being brilliant orators both Dr King and president Kennedy share another trait. They were both serial adulterers. I don't know how Obama's track record is in the marriage stakes either. I don't care, but I have been told before that "character" is very important in a president.
That got me thinking about how you get your president into the White House.
From some of the comments here, posters are really worried that the best person may not get the job because the best person is elected. So why take the risk? Why not ditch the election process and just headhunt the president? After all you don't vote for other cabinet positions they're appointed by the president, so go the whole hog and just run a selection process just like a company does for a new ceo.