Posted on 08/09/2011 5:36:54 AM PDT by bestintxas
Before returning to the States this weekend, I and others in my family spent enthralled hours at the Churchill War Rooms in London, along with the new museum in his honor next door. Now, there was a leader! There was a man whose example shouts out to us now in our hour of trouble.
On both sides of the Atlantic, the turmoil of this past week has sparked cries for those in political power to step up and for God's sake, lead. Fears are spreading across Europe as well as the U.S. that not only are our economies teetering but our politicians are ineffectual.
In their summit a short while ago, leaders of European democracies promised they had fixed the problems of their weakest player, Greece. Instead, their solution was so timid that fears of default have spread to Italy and Spain, the third and fourth largest economies in the euro zone. In the U.S., President Obama and Congressional leaders assured us that their budget deal would put us on a safe path. Instead, markets plunged and Standard & Poors stripped our county of its AAA credit rating for the first time ever.
It's not that you don't have the economic capacity to pay your bills, said S&P; we're just not sure you have the political capacity to pay them. One can well object to the decision, as the White House has, but the damage is done in international eyes. Gloom is thick across the waters.
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Didn’t Obama give the Churchill bust back to Britian when he and mooochele moved in to the White House? So much for this knucklehead doing anything that resembles a Chruchill move.
The marxist chickens have come home to roost in the White House.
Gergen is a Hussein worshipper.
Is Gergen saying we have to fight the Muslim in the white house now?
“I and others in my family”
David? Hello?
Your 6th grade English teacher must be appalled. And you call yourself a writer?
“Members of my family and I”
It sounds more like Gergen is fiending for Mitt Romney. Oh, by the way. To my knowledge, there has been only one POTUS with an MBA.......George W. Bush.
Is Gergen saying we have to fight the Muslim in the white house now?
Ronald Reagan wasn't a businessman. All he was, was someone who understood the problems we faced and how they were connected - and what levers affected which problems.
Some small business experience would be nice, but the government isn’t a business. What we need is a POTUS with conservative values and the leadership skill to create the right kind of leadership team. They won’t need to manage the economy so much as figure out how to unravel the myriad rules and regulations that are throttling it.
Of course, the question is rhetorical one need only read the biographical blurb and stop at the Kennedy School of Government to understand why. In a world where the university actually pays attention to facts and truth, David Gergen would simply be ignored to death.
Actually, what we need is Calvin Coolidge.
We need a President who sit down, shut the hell up, go away, and let business return to business.
(And maybe muscle through a few radical de-regulatory measures when no one’s looking).
If ‘we’ have to take advice from Gergen we’re DOOMED.
No argument about Ronnie.
My point was that presently there are almost zero advisors to the POTUS that have practical business experience. At most, they have an MBA with collegiate experience only.
Obama shuns those with practical business expertise while Reagan embraced those.
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