They're both descent guys, I agree or disagree with each of them on 50% of their platform. 90% of what politicians promise in a campaign doesn't happen anyway.
I'm voting based on executive experience, and prior to this race, neither of them had any.
The operative part of that phrase is, "prior to this race".
For each candidate, the largest budget they've ever managed, the largest operation they've ever been the executive of is, in fact, their own presidential campaign.
The only test we have of how either of them will perform in an executive management role is how well they've performed in the role of managing their own campaigns.
Obama has shown himself to have superior executive management skills in the only example of an executive management role that either of them has a track record in.
McCain, on the other hand, made a poor choice in his first hire, with the under-qualified Sarah Palin, and poorly handled the bailout crisis. Though I opposed the bailout, both of these candidates supported it. So the question for me is, who managed the crisis and lead their party better. Obama's methodology showed he would not politicize crisis, and knew how to rely on advisors. McCain used it for political grandstanding and furthermore, though it was a Republican bill, and he is the Republican candidate, he proved he could not even lead his own party when the first bill was killed by his own Republican colleagues.
I'm still waiting for a Bloomberg endorsement.
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