This assumes, of course, that the captain has total control over all issues. In the case of most captains, they don't. They work for someone - the ship owner. In Bush's case, he works for the people who put him in office, and his perceived failure to lead has really been more a case of him doing the biding of his handlers. The voting public, for the most part, was content to let this failure of leadership continue as long as it didn't interfere with their comfortable lives - bread and circuses. Now it's time to pay up - which Bush did last week when with a flourish of his pen he transferred 700 billion dollars of wealth from general populace to the money changers.
If his agenda had been to do what was best for the people of the United States, he has been a miserable failure. But in terms of enriching and doing the work of his masters, he's been a blinding success. On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dino wrote: >> But when evidence of those processes are given, it doesn't change your >> opinion. Sam showed 17 attempts to deal with the situation in 2008 alone. > > Do or do not. There is no try. > > You either hit the iceberg or you didn't. > > Let's try use-casing your proposed list of excuses: > > Excuse #1.) There was no way to physically avoid all of the icebergs. > Then the captain shouldn't have sailed there in the first place. > Cancel the trip, alter course, but be smart enough to not be where you > shouldn't be. > > Excuse #2.) The engineer was sleeping when the captain needed full > power. Then the captain sailed with the wrong engineer. > > Excuse #3.) The lookout failed to see the iceberg. The the captain > has the wrong lookout. > > Getting the idea? You see as a passenger I want to be angry with the > captain for the poor food quality. If that's the scope and scale of > the issues, I'm happy. > > A good captain - a good leader - only takes jobs he can be successful > at. He ensures he always has the right equipment, the right people, > and the right information to get the job done. If he doesn't, he > doesn't take the job. > > Bush took the job. I expect him to avoid the economic crisis. He's > the captain. > > If you have lower expectations and standards of your leaders, your call. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:273442 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
