The Issues, No. 14 - Who Are Their Management Teams?

I believe I read an article recently in Parade Magazine that may have been excerpts from a book written by Lee Iacocca in which he said that it is important for our Presidential candidates to let us know, well before election day, who they are going to have on their management team. He said a good manager is only as good as the people who work for him and that we simply are unable to vote intelligently for and judge what kind of manager our President will be until we know who his management team will be.

I think Mr. Iacocca has made an excellent point and I think that with the conventions coming up, that Senators McCain and Obama should tell us who they are going to select for their Vice President, their Secretary of State, their Secretary of Defense, and their secretaries of all other departments in the Executive Branch. I want to know who is going to run the CIA, the NSA, and the FBI. I also want to know who they are going to select as their White House Chief of Staff. And, I want to see resumes of these people so that I can make a judgment as to whether I think they are qualified or not.

So, I am going to send Senator Obama and Senator McCain emails letting them know that I am not even going to consider voting for them until they tell us who their management teams will be. If you agree with me, and, more importantly, if you agree with Mr. Iacocca, you might consider doing likewise.