I have always been fascinated by the exit poles of the last
presidential election. The
majority of people who voted for George W. Bush over John Kerry said they did
so because Bush was “one of them.”
More people related to Bush as an equal than to Kerry who they thought
of as an adjunct of a wealthy wife, and somehow “above them.” Kerry was too
intellectual, too elitist. Now
that the dust has settled from that election, hasn’t the absurdity of that hit
you yet? After all, it was Bush who was the privileged son of an ex-president
immersed in the oil business, and he was the one who had the luxury of running
a couple of businesses into the ground without any real personal
repercussions. Let me go out on a
limb here, and state that ninety-nine percent of the people who felt he was
“one of them” and who voted for W did not have that luxury.
Call
me old-fashioned, but I want the leader of the country to be better than me. I
don’t want to have a beer with my next president. I don’t really care if he is
a Democrat or a Republican; I just want him to be vastly more intelligent than
I am. I want him to have far reaching opinions about issues I cannot quite get
my head around. I want to need to have a couple of days to digest his policy
statements. It wouldn’t break my heart if I needed to consult a dictionary a
time or two during a presidential speech.
Former vice-president Dan Quayle took an enormous amount of heat
(probably unjustifiably) for his mis-statement during a speech to the NAACP that
“a mind is a terrible thing.” I
want the next president to know why that is so funny.
Myron Gushlak is a Canadian-born investment banker. He has over 14 years experience in Investment Banking. Mr. Gushlak started his career working at a Canadian national brokerage firm, first gaining experience as a licensed retail broker then moving on to the institutional trading and corporate finance areas. In 1998, he left the firm to start his own merchant banking group called Imperium Capital Inc. One of the first transactions completed by Imperium was the reverse merger of Emusic, where he met Mr. Gene Hoffman. The success of this transaction led to the forming of the BlueWater Partnership in 2004.In 2000, Myron Gushlak relocated from Canada to the Cayman Islands due to its world-class banking and financial services industries.
