How is Obama qualified to help fix the private sector if he has almost no private sector experience?

Isn't having a career government bureaucrat trying to fix the private sector a bit like hiring a painter to fix your plumbing problem?





Is there any question why Obama is failing in his duties?|||He is not, he is qualified though to be a community disrupter|||Couldn't you have said the same thing about, for example, Eisenhower, Truman, Lincoln, Hoover, Nixon, Ford, and George H.W. Bush?





Most Presidents do not come from the private sector.





George W. Bush had the private sector experience of running a company into the ground after obtaining a position only because he had a rich and famous daddy. I guess that if you consider that to be good private sector experience, I suppose Bush was a "success." I don't see it that way.





Jimmy Carter had more private sector experience than most Presidents--he was a successful peanut farmer. Do you consider his presidency a success?|||Well, I can accept this. A president can lack some experience and, recognizing this, appoint an adviser who does have the experience to guide him. The problem here is that a) Obama doesn't recognize his lack of experience and b) his advisers on the subjects are idiots. I mean, Gietner couldn't even fill out his taxes properly even when IRS clerk pointed out the problems! And this is the guy that is supposed to advise the President on financial matters? Then there is Vice President Hairplug, "The American people are not spending money, so we have to. If we don't spend more money, we'll go bankrupt."





You can't make up brilliance of this calibre.|||Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.


Obama served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he ran for United States Senate in 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Democratic primary election for the United States Senator from Illinois and his prime-time televised keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in November 2004.Following high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles in 1979 to attend Occidental College.[24] After two years he transferred in 1981 to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations[25] and graduated with a B.A. in 1983. He worked for a year at the Business International Corporation,[26][27] then at the New York Public Interest Research Group.[28][29]


After four years in New York City, Obama moved to Chicago, where he was hired as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland (Roseland, West Pullman and Riverdale) on Chicago's far South Side. He worked there as a community organizer from June 1985 to May 1988.[28][30] During his three years as the DCP's director, its staff grew from one to thirteen and its annual budget grew from $70,000 to $400,000. He helped set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants' rights organization in Altgeld Gardens.[31] Obama also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organizing institute.[32] In mid-1988, he traveled for the first time in Europe for three weeks and then for five weeks in Kenya, where he met many of his paternal relatives for the first time.[33] He returned in August 2006 in a visit to his father's birthplace, a village near Kisumu in rural western Kenya.[34]


In late 1988, Obama entered Harvard Law School. He was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year,[35] and president of the journal in his second year.[36] During his summers, he returned to Chicago, where he worked as a summer associate at the law firms of Sidley Austin in 1989 and Hopkins %26amp; Sutter in 1990.[37] After graduating with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna *** laude[38] from Harvard in 1991, he returned to Chicago.[35] Obama's election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review gained national media attention[36] and led to a publishing contract and advance for a book about race relations,[39] which evolved into a personal memoir. The manuscript was published in mid-1995 as Dreams from My Father.[39]


In 1991, Obama accepted a two-year position as Visiting Law and Government Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School to work on his first book.[40] He then served as a professor at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years; as a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996, and as a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004 teaching constitutional law.[41]


From April to October 1992, Obama directed Illinois's Project Vote, a voter registration drive with a staff of ten and 700 volunteers; it achieved its goal of registering 150,000 of 400,000 unregistered African Americans in the state, and led to Crain's Chicago Business naming Obama to its 1993 list of "40 under Forty" powers to be.[42]


In 1993 he joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill %26amp; Galland, a law firm of 12 attorneys that specialized in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996, then of counsel from 1996 to 2004, with his law license becoming inactive in 2002.[43]


Obama served from 1994 to 2002 on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago, which in 1985 had been the first foundation to fund the Developing Communities Project, and also from 1994 to 2002 on the board of directors of the Joyce Foundation.[28] He served on the board of directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge from 1995 to 2002, as founding president and chairman of the board of directors from 1995 to 1999.[28]





Now, please post your credentials, to validate your opinions on this subject, compare them to the above.|||The people who have that experience - the phony "talent" earning millions at the big banks and corporations - are the ones who made this mess to begin with. Sounds like your experience is pretty worthless, doesn't it?





The president is not a corporate CEO. There is no, and should be no, requirement that the president be a corporate executive to be elected.|||obama can fix anything he is the messiah, he can spend as much tax money as he wants to fix the private sector as he needs, he can crush anything in the private sector that he wants with a speech, then his minions will gather on someones lawn and make death threats 24/7 365.





obama can spend his way out of anything, who needs experience when you have unlimited resources|||It is not the government's job to fix the private sector. It is the government's job to protect the private sector from foreign and domestic threats. If the government obeyed the Constitution and basic common sense, it would remain entirely separated from the economy.|||All Presidents have many advisers. They have experience in many areas. The President's job is judgement.





I guess you'd be the kind of guy who'd fall for a candidate who says, "Vote for me-- I'm a Bidnessman! We're gonna run the gubmint like a bidness!"|||I know this two straight quarters of economic growth is killing me.





PLEASE, can we go back to the good old days of George Bush when the stock market dropped 25% of its value and 5 consecutive quarters of economic contraction. PLEASE.|||Not relevant.


According to Obama, Obama has NO INTENTION of fixing the private sector nor indeed even of ALLOWING it to survive.|||Yes he personally is not qualified he does however employ some of the best economist money can buy. Whether or not he follows there advice is of course completely up to him.|||It's not Obama, it's his entire administration. He has the least number of private sector advisers since...you guessed it...Jimmy Carter.|||The bigger question is how is Barrack Insane Obama Mm Mm Mm qualified to be president at all?|||He may have had almost none, however his experiences were not all negative like "little" georgie bush's were.|||And what does he mean by the word "fix". Does he mean it like "fix a leaky pipe", or like, "fix a dog"?|||So you're saying experience = success?


Then can you explain how Bush ruined our economy???|||He doesn't have any firsthand experience destroying a nation, either, yet he seems to be doing a bang-up job of it.|||He's responsible for MACROeconomics, not MICROeconomics. Learn the difference.|||But he is a good talker, and also good at reading a teleprompter.|||he is supposed to represent you %26amp; me, not the "private" sector!!!!|||He isn't even qualified to babysit children. Heck, who would trust the creep?|||He is qualified to do NOTHING!|||This is his 4:oo in the morning phone call they were all sure they could handle...and he just seems to be putting the call on hold...then transferring the call to some body Else..WTF?|||He listens to the advice of his advisers....like any good leader would do.|||He is Barack the Magic Negr0|||SHARE THE WEALTH!!!! (that is all but his wealth)|||Apparently you have no idea of the responsibilities of the POTUS, nor his ability to gather intelligent and informative advise from his political party, advisers and reach across the political aisle. BTW, Harvard is not joke.