The country is not a business, it's a trust. We already had a CEO running it like a business

and look where we are now.
This was my favorite line of the debate tonight.

I have said this time and time again and the only reaction I get from people are rolled eyes. It is and always has been a RW talking point that has been perpetuated by,dare I say it, our old friend the corporate media.

Her use of the term "trust" hearkens back to earlier administrations that viewed the presidency as a public trust. The point was to serve the needs of the population. And to do that the President IS the CEO, with the resultant actions taken for the common good.

Her listening tours are part of that process. She goes out, talks to people, finds out what they need, and then works to solve the problems.

I'm getting sleepy and am not too articulate tonight :) So I found something that talks about the presidency as public trust.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff36.html

"...In one definition, "a trust is a relationship in which a person or entity (the trustee) has legal control over certain property (the trust property or trust corpus) but is bound by fiduciary duty to exercise that legal duty for the benefit of someone else (the beneficiary) according to the terms of the trust and the law." A fiduciary is a person who "bears a special relationship of trust, confidence and responsibility to others."

Madison wrote of the rulers acting for "the common good of the society," and Washington’s First Inaugural spoke of the "public good." In opposition to it, he noted "local prejudices or attachments," and "separate views" and "party animosities." He chose not to provide "a recommendation of particular measures." Near the end, Washington refused personal pay and said that the Presidency would be "limited to such actual expenditures as the public good may be thought to require..."

I've ever heard her talk directly about it in terms of the presidency before. :)