*this* president? That's a no-brainer. Full speed ahead. On 11/5/05, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dana wrote: > > Please re-read with attention to attribution and qualifying clauses. > > I sincerely doubt that those were the author's thought processes. > > I'm still sticking to my perspective, but you could be right. > > About the broader point, though, Mr. Bush is at yet another character > defining moment we've run across many times before. This is the: > > Do-you-admit-you-may-be-wrong-and-change-course-or-do-you-plow-ahead > moment that we've seen with the Iraq war, Social Security, Harriet > Meirs, etc. etc. > > Mr. Bush is under the mistaken impression that "leadership" means > sticking to the plan no matter what the reality is. He does this to a > fault. Had he actually went to Vietnam, he'd probably be dead as > every soldier knows the first casualty of battle is the plan. > > A good leader adapts, improvises, and evolves as the facts do. Mr. > Bush seems incapable of this. He fires no-men and keeps yes-men no > matter how bad they fek up. It's probably the reason he was such a > failure of a businessman. > > He's the classic example of a guy who shouldn't hire his friends, yet > that's all he hires. > > He isn't stupid in the learning disabilities sense, but he's not smart > either. He's a good salesman, but he's tired, and rarely do salesmen > make clever leaders even on their best days. > >
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