(07-14-2020, 08:20 PM)p_rushing Wrote:

(07-14-2020, 06:57 PM)mikesez Wrote: Good questions.
1) it's an election year.  I don't want CEOs telling me who they're voting for. A CEO should simply care so much about his brand and customers that he doesn't want to risk alienating half his customer base while people are fired up.

2) yes, private ambition is one of the necessary ingredients to our greatness.  I assume most Latin American countries have their own entrepreneurs. I think itd be a bit racist to assume otherwise.  If your country isn't stable, or if it has a corrupt and counterproductive government, it doesn't matter how many entrepreneurs you have. When you have functioning democratic elections, you can get rid of your corrupt or counterproductive government.   

By the way, thanks for insulting my courage and misattributing my party affiliation again.  A person with no spine would just avoid engaging arrogant horse anuses like you, of course, so I've obviously got plenty of spine.  And I help my wife fulfill her dream, where she has a small profitable business with two employees. So I might know more than you about ambition also.

He went to a meeting to help Hispanic owned business. He didn't go there to support Trump and he didn't say he was voting for Trump. He did what any good business owner would do. He went there to get his voice heard, ensure he made connections, and said afterwards it was a good meeting to the media. He was used by Trump to show he is listening to Hispanics and he used Trump to ensure his business was helped out.

How do you think he was endorsing Trump? He would have said the exact same thing no matter who the president was.

A quick search of Google News says that this CEO appeared on Fox News the other day justifying himself, saying that he also appeared with President Obama.
Which is true, according to the first article I clicked on.
He appeared with President Obama in 2011, and with Michelle Obama in 2012, which was an election year.
However, he is not quoted in the article as praising either of them. He didn't praise him at the time and he doesn't praise them now.

See, when you have a high functioning president, a president who has a modicum of emotional intelligence, a president with a thick skin Like the first 44 presidents we had, you can get time with him regardless of your own personal loyalties.

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