Submitted by Jprice, Sep 11, 2007 01:23

Nick - as you can see this is not a perfectly straight a to b argument, although I would say Jimmy and Bubba are at least ideological offsets.

The point, though, is that the office of the President is designed to run the government. Non-executive politicians don't run the gov't, they play games all day. Real exec's can be politicians but they also focus on making gov't work, making real things happen, turning all those great ideas we elect them for into practice.

Running the Federal Gov't is exactly like running a huge corporation, with 3 million employees and $2 trillion budgets. It has inputs and outputs, goals, products, and customers (us). I highly doubt o'Bama, Hill, Edwards, or especially Thompson have any clue how to manage big organizations. That is exactly what the President of the US is supposed to do, and what we need them to do. The prez should indeed be the CEO, with congress the board of directors, and the supremes making sure everyone plays by the rules.

Maybe it's asking too much. But I believe it is exactly what the framers meant when they called it the Executive Branch.

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