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Who would be the best Centrist President?
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We need a president that makes sense for America!
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born 14 February 1942) is
an American businessman, founder of Bloomberg L.P., and the Mayor of
New York City. Although a lifelong Democrat, he ran on the Republican
ballot and was elected mayor in 2001, and was reelected to a second
term in 2005. Bloomberg attended Johns Hopkins University, and
graduated in 1964 with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in
electrical engineering. Later he received his Master of Business
Administration (MBA) degree from Harvard Business School.
Paul O'Neill
Paul Henry O'Neill (born December 4, 1935) served
as the 72nd United States Secretary of the Treasury for part of
President George W. Bush's first Administration. He resigned in
December 2002 under pressure from the administration and became a harsh
critic. O'Neill was chairman and CEO of Pittsburgh-based industrial
giant Alcoa from 1987 to 1999, and retired as chairman at the end of
2000. In 1995, he was made chairman of the RAND Corporation.
Paul O'Neill has a strong reputation of honor and dedication to performance and value. His character is exemplified by his career and his choices.
General Colin Powell
Colin Luther Powell, United States Army (Ret.)
(born April 5, 1937) is an American statesman. He was the 65th United
States Secretary of State (2001-05), serving under President George W.
Bush. As
a General in the United States Army, Powell also served as National
Security Adviser (1987–1989) and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff (1989–1993), holding the latter position during the Gulf War.
General Powell has served this country with honor and dignity in the military, government and education. There is no one with his level of executive experience, or scope of capacity, in government today.
Better?
In my humble opinion the answer is clear; Bloomberg. The man is a genius, and he knows how to fix things. Remember, he's an engineer with a true analytical mind & he's a natural in business and politics. Not only that, he executes plans better than any other person I've seen. When others were talking about fixing NYC the Mayor's office didn't even have email. How long has Mr. Bloomberg been in office now? How long has email been around?
Budget concerns? How about NYC's first financial surplus since Rockefeller?
I believe that he made a mistake not running this year, but I am sure glad that he's staying here for now - especially in this economy!
Just one man's opinion.
Cheers, Patrick
Forgot to mention...
I with you Patrick. Bloomberg is going to be the goto man in the future.
Congress
I agree. Too many people get tunnel vision when it comes to POTUS elections. Real change will occur in the House and Senate. We need to break the choke hold that the D&R's have on DC.
More centrist candidates.
First, I would like to refer you all to www.ontheissues.org a great place to find out who is really centrist, and in what ways. Here are my favorite centrists who have a decent shot at the presidency.- In this order. Tim Kaine Charlie Crist Mary Landrieu
What is a Centrist?
I came to this site expecting a serious discussion of common values, but what I find is the usual Right Wing, Top down, predigested elitist program with little or no space for actual ideas or belief in normal Americans enough to have a real three way debate, and perhaps come up with real solutions.
True enough the Republican Party has been hijacked by cave guano crazies with wild imaginations that only racism and theocracy are discernible threads, but the more staid ideas of William F Buckley, or Milton Friedman do not have a lot of positive results either, as our disappearing middle class, and bloated banker plutocracy makes very clear.
A Rush, Beck, Palin, etc free Republican Party would be a positive thing, but they would hardly be Centrist. Thanks in part to those folk any real Centrists are screamed out as Commie, or far out leftist, or whatever, but taken on reality based policy issues Howard Dean is the actual centrist, with Obama and Clinton well to his right and, Russ Feingold, Kucinich, Bernie Saunders very slightly to his left. To find someone as far left as Paul O'Neill is to the Right you would be talking Cinthia McKinney, or Medea Benjamin, or such folks not even in the Democratic party.
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