Re: Hey hussein.......America needs a leader, not a half-assed comedian

On Mar 31, 12:28 pm, Scorpion <scorpion@hushmail> wrote:
or a phony rock star.

MEMO TO OBAMA:
LAUGHTER NO SUBSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP

By: John David Powell

President Barack Obama’s performance on "The Tonight Show" last week
prompted various friends and colleagues to discuss the question of
leadership. No one came up with a definition suitable for nailing to
the wall or turning into a message to scroll across the computer
screen. I suggested it may be one of those things we know when we
don’t see it. Kinda the reverse of former Supreme Court Justice Potter
Stewart’s description of hard-core pornography. He knew it when he saw
it.

And that’s the curious, if not tortured, parallel between lack of
leadership and porn: with both, someone’s gonna get (fill in the
appropriate verb).

I used to work closely with the CEO of a billion-dollar research and
education organization with thousands of employees spread out over
several locations. Looking back over his tenure, I can break down his
leadership style into four principles: 1) don’t make me make a
decision, 2) give folks what they want, 3) make people feel good, and
4) make them laugh. I guess you could combine the third and fourth
tenets to shorten the list.

Early on, the CEO told his vice presidents not to bring him any
problems. "I expect you to work them out," he said. "If you come to me
for a solution, I figure the best minds here couldn’t come up with an
answer, so you’ll be stuck with whatever I come up with."

Shortly after that, a group of downstream managers asked permission
and funding to continue an annual management conference. "I had the
same sort of request at my last place," he told me. "I always let them
do it, because it takes them about a year to organize one of these
things, and that keeps them away from me for a year."

He never spoke in depth on any subject, because, as I discovered, he
didn’t possess any depth of knowledge or experience. But he was
awfully good with smoke and mirrors. "I don’t use prepared speeches,"
he told me. "I got about six or seven basic speeches I like to use,
and I use a little of one here and a little of another there, to come
up with something to say. I usually don’t know what I’m going to say
until I get up there. But it’s important to know that people don’t
want to think hard about things and they don’t want to hear bad news.
You want to give them just a few statistics to keep the subject fresh,
and tell them a little history to give them some perspective on what
you’re talking about."

And then came his request of me. "I need you to find me some new
jokes," he said. "I spend about half my time finding jokes. So, you
could do me a big favor by finding some new jokes for me."

President Obama’s appearance with Leno made me look back over the past
year and at the parallels with the aforementioned CEO. Let’s start
with decisions. We’ll have to give the president the benefit of the
doubt here and assume someone else is making the big decisions, like
naming tax cheats to his cabinet, or picking a treasury secretary who
was *** deep into the AIG bonus fiasco from the git-go. Those must
have been examples of "If you come to me for a nominee, I figure the
best minds here couldn’t come up with a good choice, so you’ll be
stuck with the person I choose."

Next is give folks what they want. People wanted change going into the
November elections. Every national poll last summer showed nine out of
ten Americans did not like Congress’ performance, while eight out of
ten didn’t like the president’s performance. The voters wanted change,
and that was the mantra repeated by candidate Obama at every stop. It
didn’t matter if the change were cosmetic and easily reversed when
needed, like with John McCain’s assertion that the fundamentals of the
economy are sound, a position derided by candidate Obama as a
statement by someone out of touch with the realities of the American
people. Then a few days ago, a bright light shone from the heavens and
suddenly the fundamentals of the economy are sound. Praise the Lord
and pass the ipecac.

Then came the I’m-just-one-of-you evenings with Leno, with Mr. Obama
as the sole guest on a night that could have included an enhanced
starlet, a stoned rocker, or a kid who whistles Chopin through his
nose. No, we didn’t have one of those. Pity. I’m not sure even the
most vapid of entertainers would have made fun of the Special Olympics
just so folks could feel good and laugh.

Memo to President Obama: Laughter is no substitute for leadership.

"Published originally at EtherZone.com : republication allowed with
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Sad part of is that Obama isn't even funny!! That affected voice of his
is what is funny..not what he says.
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