> Juday wrote: > A fine point and one I agree with completely. > Nobody can know everything, so certainly this seems to make sense.
But consider this for a moment: let's say you interview for a hedge fund job on the US convertible bond arbitrage desk. Do you think there's some minimum level of knowledge you should have? Or would, "gee I don't know, I'll ask someone and get back to you" suffice? The point is, there's a reasonable level of knowledge, wisdom, *and talent* we should require of people we're hiring for a job. In the case of the President, they should have some fairly decent economic knowledge before they apply. If they don't, then they probably don't have the talent. E.g., ever get the "tell me about your largest area of improvement" in an interview? Well anyone with half a wit has read the standard answers and regurgitates them. So why ask? Because it's a "signaling effect". If the person has had enough forethought to properly prepare then that's a good sign. John McCain was commerce secretary for 8 years. And he has to read Greenspan's book? Would you hire developer to clean up a massive CF code nightmare who said that despite the fact that they've been a Jr. CF developer for 8 years, they really don't know much about CF, but have bought the CF for dummies book? Would that be the guy you'd think was just right to clean up your huge production mess? There's a basic level of due diligence we should expect from our leaders. If McCain needs to appoint a commission after being commerce sec for 8 years, then he's CLEARLY not done the due diligence we should expect for a Presidential candidate. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:269684 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
