[CLUE-Talk] interesting leadership point this morning on KNRC

[Don Collier]

You know.... as much as I hate all the Bush bashing going on, I have to 
agree with that statement.

Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:

>On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:34:34 -0700
>Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> wrote:
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>>A caller to KNRC radio pointed out this morning that in placing the 
>>blame on CIA & the intelligence community, Mr. Bush is breaking one of 
>>the first laws of true leadership.  "The buck stops here."
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>>I found that insightful -- if there was a failure of the 
>>CIA/Intelligence community, a true leader would say "my fault" and come 
>>up with a plan to keep that from happening again.
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>In fairness to Bush, this is Standard Operating Procedure for politicos
>these days -- pass the buck to someone else, anyone else, as long as
>they can deny fault. I'm not condoning it, just saying that I would be
>duly impressed with any politician that would step up and own the
>mistake rather than trying to blame it on others... these days, personal
>responsibility doesn't seem to be in vogue. 
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>Best,
>Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier [jzb at dissociatedpress.net]
>--
>"A leader is best when people barely know that he exists, 
>less good when they obey and acclaim him, worse when they 
>fear and despise him. Fail to honor people and they fail 
>to honor you. But of a good leader, when his work is done, 
>his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.'" 
>~ Lao-Tzu
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