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Would you support Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz for president?
Dec 5, 2014, 1:48 PM | Updated: 2:28 pm
People are talking this week about the potential of Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz running for president following comments he made at an investor meeting in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Taken from Friday’s edition of The Dori Monson Show on KIRO Radio.
Is Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz thinking about running for President of the United States of America?
One thing that has become very clear is Howard Schultz is becoming more and more politically active.
“Whether you are a Republican or a Democrat sitting in this audience, we all can know and recognize one thing. The country is definitely not going in the right direction. There is a significant void of leadership in America and around the world,” he said at an investor conference in Seattle Thursday.
You may recall Howard Schultz was very critical of Obamacare right after it passed.
“The execution is really flawed,” Schultz said. “It’s off the rails and I think what the country needs now is real honesty and transparency.”
So there’s a lot of speculation that Howard Schultz is thinking about running for president.
Chuck Todd, from NBC News, said you know what? Maybe America is ready for a businessman as president.
“The president is unpopular. Congress is even more unpopular. The search for somebody different, something new, a disruptive force – look, I think there is absolutely an opening here. I don’t know if it’s a Howard Schultz. I don’t know if it’s somebody from Silicon Valley. But I am convinced that the electorate, that the American public, would be open to somebody, if somebody like a Howard Schultz were interested in entering the arena.”
I think America is ready for a businessman as president. I think Mitt Romney would have been a pretty good president. I think America could benefit from a business leader in that position.
We can’t have $18 trillion in debt. We have to start running this country like a business. As long as the person also knows how to provide for our defense and take care of the infrastructure and all of that, I think a business leader running the country would be good.
On Howard Schultz, I don’t know enough about his politics. I don’t know enough about what he would want to do as president. But I do think a businessman as President of the United States would be far superior to the politicians we’re served up every couple of years.
Taken from Friday’s edition of The Dori Monson Show on KIRO Radio.
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