By Wes Pedersen

I submit that what this country needs in the White House is a political novice.

I don’t care about any of that, I want a president who sincerely cares about this country, not about a morally corrupt slacker party, but about a country that is being ripped asunder by congressional hacks, anything for a buck lobbyists, incompetent economists, and a current president who prefers adventurism abroad to sound governance at home.

I want a president who devours knowledge and is economically grounded through experience in both the labor and management trenches. I don’t care if this individual boasts a Harvard or Yale degree in whatever, or, like Harry Truman, is a graduate summa cum laude of the school of hard knocks.

I want a proven can-doer in some major field other than politics.

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