Comments on: A liberal view of the Clinton-Obama faceoff

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:09:23 +0000

I can certainly appreciate how Book, with help from DQ, has been transformed Bookworm Room into a magnet for very interesting and thought-provoking people, not to mention its unfortunately rare quality of civil discourse.

By: David Foster

David Foster — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:48:01 +0000

Thanks, Danny.

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:19:34 +0000

Interesting blog you have, David.

By: Deana

Deana — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:29:40 +0000

David -

I love how that executive asked the guy to just say what he wanted to do - and the guy couldn’t do it!

I find that with a lot of lefties - they criticize everything but when asked how they would handle particular problems, actual real-life issues, they stumble. It’s always “there should be a discussion” or “an attempt should be made to . . .,” as if those efforts have never happened.

And because their solutions always center around studies and discussion and not action and commitment, their theories never have to be tested by reality. It’s so convenient - they can never be proven wrong! No wonder they think they are so smart.

Deana

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:33:37 +0000

Need to recruit fighters and ditch old luggage like Tenet.

By: Oldflyer

Oldflyer — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:22:41 +0000

Given the enormous growth of government with the attendant gigantic and entrenched bureacracy, I believe that it is essential that the President have experience and proven success in exerting his will on large organizations. For conservatives, it is even more meaningful if the experience has been with hostile organizations.

I would have expected GWB to be more adept at this (Harvard MBA/Governor) but his shortfalls in this regard have been serious and are a cautionary tale.

For future reference it may be wothwhile to look primarily at Governors who have succeeded in states where he has belonged to the minority party. There are examples; Mitt Romney being a current one. A natural source of Cabinet Officers, if not political candidates, would be CEOs who have turned around failing corporations in the face of entrenched opposition.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:20:14 +0000

Leftists view intelligence as a virtue, Deana, for surely they don’t have any wisdom to exclaim over.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:19:30 +0000

My own preference was for Romney or Giuliani who both actually had executive experience.

Unfortunately those two wanted to take a hit for party united and bowed out after only a few primaries.

Talk about retarded primaries where the candidate is “eliminated” even before all the votes are in. Only “some” Republicans, it seemed, got to vote on who the Republican candidate would be.

By: David Foster

David Foster — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:57:57 +0000

Deana…”What is it with liberals who are convinced that they are so much smarter than anyone else?”…to slychologize a bit, I suspect that many “progressives” are people who hold an advanced degree in some soft subject and now are employed at a level far below that which they believe to be their due. The belief in their own superior intelligence is a way in protecting their self-image: many of these are very status-conscious people.

By: Zhombre

Zhombre — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:17:36 +0000

That’s the problem with candidates from the Senate, isn’t it, David? Which is why this year presents an anomalous situation, with three Senators in contention. My own preference was for Romney or Giuliani who both actually had executive experience.