# Ah-nuhld to Run

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-nuhld-to-run/193477>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 7, 2003, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-nuhld-to-run/193477 "2003-08-07T00:45:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-nuhld-to-run/193477/41 "2003-08-11T13:20:58Z")

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> \*Originally posted by SPOOFE \*  
> \*\*If I closed my eyes, I wouldn’t see anything either.
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> :rolleyes: \*\*

So many in this thread are falling all overthemselves to say I am wrong in my estimation of his qualifications. If he were running for congress I would have no problem. In congress you can afford a learning curve. But no one in this thread, or anywhere else, has suggested any way that he may be qualified to lead the, what fifteenth, largest economy in the world?.

Whoever wins in CA is going to need to hit the ground running. Arnie is not prepared to do that.

And it isn’t just me. I have seen his lack of any administrative background being discussed virtually any time his candidacy was mentioned in newspapers or on TV all weekend long.

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**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ah-nuhld-to-run/193477/42 "2003-08-11T13:36:43Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Dewey Cheatem Undhow \*  
> \*\* Let me restate: He raised capital. He invested that capital wisely in an area notorious for monetary landmines. \*\*

This is pure speculation on your part. You have no idea whether he was “wise” or lucky. Although, honestly I don’t know how anyone could have invested money in property in the last 50 and not made money hand over fist.

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> \*Originally posted by Dewey Cheatem Undhow \*  
> \*\*He sought to expand his understanding of the business world so he could make even better investing decisions. \*\*

Again, unless you were there you have no idea of what his motivations were. You are just putting the most positive spin on it possible.

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> \*Originally posted by Dewey Cheatem Undhow \*  
> \*\* He didn’t need that piece of paper. His career would have continued apace without it. \*\*

Have you visited the great Oracle at Delphi that you can see so clearly the alternate futures that await us all?

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> \*Originally posted by Dewey Cheatem Undhow \*  
> **No, but then most politicians do not have academic backgrounds that make them experts in governmental finance.**

First of all, not just politicians but chief executives and not just chief executives but chief executives facing the worst fiscal crisis on the planet. And second of all I never said it needed to be academic credentials. In fact I would much prefer experience. Which he is also sorely lacking.

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> \*Originally posted by Dewey Cheatem Undhow \*  
> \*\*That is why God created advisers. What you really want from a leader is not a hypertechnical grasp of every aspect of public policy, but rather good judgment in the people he chooses to surround himself with and the ability to see the “big picture” and make a decision accordingly. \*\*

And you have now succeeded in finding yet another aspect of the job where Arnie has zero experience and zero training.

You can put a saddle on a cow but don’t expect to win the derby.

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