Being elected does not automatically make a person a leader.
Turning around failing businesses, buying them and running them does.
Chairing the Federal Reserve and serving on numerous Boards of Directors does.
Politicians got us into this mess. A businessman can get us out.
Indeed not; and again; we have only to look at current White House occupant, to be so reminded.
As to our mess; I would offer that 'bad politicians' and 'bad politics' coupled with 'bad business along with bad government business the likes of 'Fannie and Fredie' got us into this mess. Guided as so many of them were and 'are'; by a very bad political ideology.