“The day of reckoning is here”
Bookworm on Jun 16 2010 at 1:27 pm | Filed under: Chris Christie
I posted earlier today about Great Men, and how they look at the waves heading their way and decide to leap athwart those waves and drive them in certain directions. Chris Christie is one of those men. He truly has the capacity for greatness:
Please note his sense, his morality, his decency, his coherence, his humility, and his intellectual honesty, and contrast it with the flat, emotion-free, blame-filled, hopeless aspect Obama presented in his first Oval Office address. One man is surfing the wave, the other is on the beach, trying to avoid getting drowned (and to Hell with the rest of us).
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I’m just DESPERATE to have this man run for something in a venue where I can cast my vote for him.
I tell my kids never to fall in love with a politician (they ignored me in 2008, and I’m hoping they’re wise enough to be regretting it), but I’m finding it difficult to avoid with Chris Christie!!
I know, Earl, I know.
I keep finding that I am cautioning myself to be interested in him but I can’t help it.
I don’t know if he does it on purpose but he doesn’t seem to allow himself to get wrapped around the hairy details – he seems to get that a leader’s job is to outline the big ideas, the guiding principles, and then deal with whatever comes along by following those principles.
He seems fearless.
I have big hopes but I’m trying to keep a lid on it.
People judge who they trust based upon any number of criteria. But if you wish to steer to the path of truth, results are the only thing that matters. That and strength. There are subjective criteria and then there are objective criteria. Regardless of how many subjective qualities you use or like, results will always determine where the truth of the matter lies.
Ymar,
One of the big questions for me when I contemplate potential Presidential candidates is, can they translate their appeal within one state to a national audience?
Mitch Daniels has done amazing things as Indiana governor, especially fiscally. But he recently went divisive on conservative issues, VERY unnecessarily in my opinion. I don’t think he plays well nationally, and I don’t find his communication style or use of the bully pulpit especially effective.
Christie on the other hand, seems to have all the necessary qualities in place – but he’s only been governor for a short time and therefore doesn’t have many successes to point to, yet. He is outrageously inspiring and seems to speak right to the heart of people with a conservative message that seems to have extraordinary broad appeal. He’s jumping in both feet first – at least in New Jersey – into all of the really tough fights that every other Republican seems to avoid. And he jumps in with relish.
If he can translate these things nationally instead of just in Jersey, and the American People are READY to allow the Chief Executive to go after the really hard problems we face… it could very well be Christie’s time, even in 2012. Right now, I’m just sitting back and watching and admiring.
Leadership is a skill as well as a unique individual quality.
Regardless of whether you are a “military genius” or not, you are usually entrusted with command of a few and then based upon how well you do, you are given progressively more difficult and more quantitative commands.
From the commander of 10, to a commander of 100, to a commander of five hundred, to a commander of 10 thousand.
To be a leader responsible for the United States of America, you must be capable of commanding 300 million souls, give a take 50 million or so.
Technically, that’s just impossible. Nature never intended human talents to be like that. But we’re stuck with what we have and we got to make it work or else watch it all fall apart on us.