Time For A Leader; No More Rock Stars
No sooner had Scott Brown been elected to replace Ted Kennedy, the questions were being asked about him possibly running for President. Barack Obama, makes one great speech at a Democrat convention, serves less than two years in the Senate and he is elected President. Sarah Palin is snatched from the Governorship of Alaska to be a Vice-Presidental candidate. Despite differing political views these three have one thing in common, their good looks. Since the election of John Kennedy, with the exception of Richard Nixon, elections have been won by candidates with faces for TV. Appearance has become more important than capability. It is time to elect leaders because of their intelligence and qualifications rather than their looks.
Obama, Palin and Brown have all been labeled rock stars. We don’t need rock stars, we need qualified leaders. After one year it is obvious that Obama is an example of the “Peter Principal” and in over his head. He has wasted his mandate, while having the bully pulpit and control of both houses of congress. He has failed on each of his key initiatives and is now being attacked from both sides of the political spectrum. He, and we, have learned the hard way, that governing, is different than campaigning. He is one of the great campaigners of all time and is quickly getting to Jimmy Carter status when it comes to governing.
As for Palin, even if you give her outstanding marks as Governor of Alaska, had she not had an attractive appearance, she would never had been chosen as McCain’s running mate. What in her background gives anyone comfort that she is qualified for the most powerful office in the world? The fact that I share many of her conservative views on limited government, taxation, and national security do not entice me to feel she is qualified for the Presidency. And before feminist readers get bent out of shape I have no problem with a QUALIFIED female being President.
Now, how about Scott Brown? Like Obama he has proven to be an excellent campaigner. In fact to orchestrate his win in Kennedy land he might rival Obama on campaign ability. But like Obama what in his history makes you comfortable that he is Presidential material. He may in time prove to be so but at this juncture, one week into his Senate career, what gives any credibility to a potential run for President? One thing, and one thing only, he is an attractive candidate.
Americans need to wake up to the fact that leadership is an acquired skill, regardless of the fact you hear over and over that he or she is a born leader. Real leaders have learned through experience, success and failures, and to make adjustments as needed. Leaders acknowledge their mistakes are never afraid to hire subordinates smarter and maybe even more qualified than themselves. Leaders are not afraid of vetting, do not need spinners to react to every situation, and are not afraid to make tough decisions.
AMERICA NEEDS LEADERSHIP, NOT ANOTHER ROCK STAR.
NOW Should NOW Get A Sense of Humor
The National Organization of Women need to now get a sense of humor. For a month they have blasted Tim Tebow, his Mother and CBS for the fact that they were going to air an anti-abortion ad during the Super Bowl. When that did not happen they now are claiming that the Tebow’s ad glorified violence against women.
National Organization for Women president Terry O’Neill: “I am blown away at the celebration of the violence against women in it, that’s what comes across to me even more strongly than the anti-abortion message. I myself am a survivor of domestic violence, and I don’t find it charming. I think CBS should be ashamed of itself.”
If anyone should be ashamed it should be Ms. O’Neill. All of her pre broadcast posturing proved to be incorrect so she had to find fault to save face. The ad was funny, did not glorify violence toward women, and made the point it was designed to make without being offensive. I wonder if Ms. O’Neill recognizes the fact that Mrs. Tebow is a woman (who made a choice), or does she only consider those who agree with her worthy of that designation?
Congressman Jack Murtha Dead
Democrat Congressman Jack Murtha from Pennsylvania died today at age 77. I encourage those of us with conservative values, to allow his passing to be honored without the rancor that usually occurs, from the left, when a conservative dies.
Why Do Liberals, Democrats and the Media Fear Sarah Palin?
If Sarah Palin is the idiot that liberals, democrats and the media say she is then why do they pay so much attention to her? If she has no importance in the political process then why do they continue to try to belittle everything she says?
The answer is simple, she probably does not have a political future but she is a voice for that silent majority of Americans who are fed up with government as usual and the Obama Administration and the Pelosi and Reid lead Congress.
They continue to diminish her at their own peril.
Go Colts
Being a Hoosier by birth, and having known Archie Manning, (you know Peyton’s Dad) since the Hula Bowl in 1971 there is no doubt who I will be rooting for in the game today. That said, as a resident of South Florida I will be glad for the game to be over, and all of the fans to return home safely. Traffic the past two weeks has been worse than the normal grid lock.
Hopefully all of the Indianapolis fans will not have to much trouble getting back to Indy with all of the “global warming” on the ground.
And More Is On The Way
Perhaps Junior should ask Al Gore to send some global warming!
via RFK, Jr. 15 months ago: Global warming means no snow or cold in DC | Washington Examiner.
And this from the Globe and Mail written by Margaret Wente:……….“The global warming movement as we have known it is dead,” the brilliant analyst Walter Russell Mead says in his blog on The American Interest. It was done in by a combination of bad science and bad politics……….And now, the science scandals just keep on coming. First there was the vast cache of e-mails leaked from the University of East Anglia, home of a crucial research unit responsible for collecting temperature data. Although not fatal to the science, they revealed a snakepit of scheming to keep contradictory research from being published, make imperfect data look better, and withhold information from unfriendly third parties. If science is supposed to be open and transparent, these guys acted as if they had a lot to hide………..An investigation by the British newspaper The Guardian – among the most aggressive advocates for action on climate change – has found that a series of measurements from Chinese weather stations were seriously flawed, and that documents relating to them could not be produced.
Meantime, the IPCC – the body widely regarded, until now, as the ultimate authority on climate science – is looking worse and worse. After it was forced to retract its claim about melting glaciers, Mr. Pachauri dismissed the error as a one-off. But other IPCC claims have turned out to be just as groundless.
For example, it warned that large tracts of the Amazon rain forest might be wiped out by global warming because they are extremely susceptible to even modest decreases in rainfall. The sole source for that claim, reports The Sunday Times of London, was a magazine article written by a pair of climate activists, one of whom worked for the WWF. One scientist contacted by the Times, a specialist in tropical forest ecology, called the article “a mess.”………….Worse still, the Times has discovered that Mr. Pachauri’s own Energy and Resources Unit, based in New Delhi, has collected millions in grants to study the effects of glacial melting.
To those politicians in Washington DC, who are digging out of the latest blast of “global warming,” remember to keep the shovels handy as more is on the way.
Only Katie Couric and CBS Can Defend Fraud as a PR Problem
Katie Couric claimed, on her broadcast last night, that ClimateGate and the fraudulent use of data has not changed the fact that there is climate change. It is to be noted that for her own protection she uses “climate change” instead of the previous use of “global warming.” Despite the overwhelming evidence of scientific fraud Ms. Couric claims that that ClimeGate is nothing more than a public relations problem.
Taking stances like this is one of the many reasons that CBS and Ms Couric are in a ratings slump and are terminating staffers from their news division.
John Conyers Puts Race Ahead of Relief
Representative John Conyers wrote the following letter to Secretary of State Clinton.
Dear Secretary Clinton:
As you know, the 42 member Congressional Black Caucus met with Rajiv Shah, the Administrator of the U.S. AID yesterday to discuss the crisis in Haiti. I was alarmed and chagrined to learn that none of the approximately dozen staff he brought with him were African American. This is so serious an error in judgement that it warrants his immediate demotion to a subordinate position at AID. It is well known that there has long been an under-representation of minorities in key positions within the State Department. I am confident this Administration will immediately begin addressing this problem.
I look forward to meeting with you on this matter.
Sincerely,
John Conyers, Jr.
Member of Congress
The ignorance of Congressman Conyers in using race while people of color are hurting in Haiti is beyond logical explanation.
Tough Choices Don’t Apply To Government
While President Obama lectures on the need to make tough choices (citizens stay away from Las Vegas) the government feels that spending $2.5 million on a 30 second spot during the Super Bowl to promote the census. This is just part of the $132 million dollars that the government will spend on census promotion through various avenues. The census forms are also being printed in 28 different languages. TOUGH CHOICES, REALLY?
Mr. President, Who Is Writing Your Speeches?
At today’s Prayer Breakfast President Obama had the following statement: “God’s grace is expressed by Americans of every faith and no faith uniting around a common purpose, a higher purpose.” REALLY? I doubt that any atheist I have come into contact with (admitting that number is few) would feel that God, a God they don’t believe exists, provides grace through them.
Mr. President you are not the dunce, at least I hope not, that your speech writer is making you sound like. I doubt that in a speech to the NAACP your writer would make reference to the KKK or Major Hasan at a memorial service for those who died at Fort Hood. However, if the writer felt it was necessary to include Atheists in a Prayer Breakfast who knows. You would be advised to find a new writer or at least read the speech yourself before you and TOTUS deliver it.
