2012 U.S. Presidential Election

[kurai]

And why would a President place him in a Czar or Cabinet position to handle foreign aid? His experience is on domestic economic issues. Hell the Secretary of Labor would be a fitting position.

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You mean such as say the Bank Bailout Czar and TARP Czar who previously had a role in the Treasury Department and graduated from college with a degree in "aeronautical engineering". I wonder what does Aeronautical engineering have to do with TARP or Bank Bailouts? Nothing, he had prior experience at the treasury and before that Goldman Sacks. The appointment, like many was purely based on political experience.

Or there is the next person who took over the role of Bank Bailout Czar and TARP czar, who held the previous position as CEO of Fannie Mae, Chairman, President, and CEO of TIAA-CREF, and various positions at Merrill Lynch.

The Secretary of Labor would return him to the line of succession. Foreign aid is connected to domestic economic issues - it is all out of the same federal budget. What exact role do you propose for Perry? What is the current analogue to this position?

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I think you can do better than this. Neel Kashkari earned an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2002. Combine this with financial sector and treasury experience - how is this a solely political appointment?

As for Herbert M. Allison, he "earned a B.A. in philosophy from Yale University. Following four years as an officer in the U.S. Navy, including one year in Vietnam, he received an M.B.A. from Stanford University." Then we see decades of financial sector and policy consultation experience.

This is a wide berth from a B.S. in animal science and experience in the political executive. You seek to appoint an executive as an advisor instead of putting an advisor in that role, despite the anti-American rhetoric which should disqualify them altogether.