[houeto]

The president is not a dictator and much of what Herman Cain says he would do cannot be accomplished without significant political skills.

IMO, it takes significant political skills to successfully climb corporate ladders.

[Norseman]

>>IMO, it takes significant political skills to successfully climb corporate ladders.<<

Right. Getting things done is about finding the right people, relying upon them to help sort through the issues, deciding as the manager what to do, and then managing your people effectively so they stay on task.

Obama found all the wrong people, thinks he knows more than they do, and then still set them free to do whatever the hell they personally thought would be a great idea. No management, political or otherwise, at all...until something blows up in his face, like Solyndra, Fast&Furious, the Boeing factory fiasco, and now the weird support for the Occupy Wall Street hordes.