[Pan_Yan]

So let me see if I understand what National Topsail Online is telling me. We need to vote for a career politician because a citizen who runs for public office is by definition a politician, just an amateur one. So if we really want to clean up the sewer in Washington we elect someone who has decades of rolling in the filth.

Got it.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

So let me see if I understand what National Topsail Online is telling me. We need to vote for a career politician because a citizen who runs for public office is by definition a politician, just an amateur one. So if we really want to clean up the sewer in Washington we elect someone who has decades of rolling in the filth.

I posted this OpEd because I would like someone to tell me why being a businessman (woman) would make you a better President for the United States in this very troubled time, by claiming your "Wall Street" or "Main Street" cred trumped a long-serving governor whose state had an outstanding economy and jobs record during the same time the country was experiencing a recession.

Why don't you explain it to me?

[Brookhaven]

I’m glad I’m not the only one that found the article thick with irony, but devoid of logic.

Herman Cain’s running as a non-politician, because he has never held political office.

But, since he’s running for office that makes him a politician.

Thus, there’s no difference between Herman Cain and Rick Perry—a career politician that has held four different political offices over the last 25 years (a quarter of a century).

Gimme a break.