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Posted on 11/07/2010 5:51:49 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
The Girl Scouts are right: Today, to be a leader is to be a liar
Sat, 11/06/2010 - 9:51pm — lambert
Carolyn Miss:
This past weekend, for example, I had the pleasure of meeting the CEO of the Girl Scouts of America because she attended my last workshop. I was absolutely delighted to discover that she was one of my participants. I had to admit to her at the onset of our conversation that the Girl Scouts was not an item on my radar. Essentially, I said, I associate the Girl Scouts with cookies. She said, “As does everyone else.”
Turns out the Girl Scouts are involved in far more enterprising activities than cookie sales. For instance, they reach out to girls who have been prostitutes and drug users and introduce them to the values and benefits of joining a Girl Scout troop. The support these girls find from being a part of a Girl Scout troop is astonishing. Then came the other astonishing tidbits, the sort that leaves you breathless for all the wrong reasons.
CEO Tamara Woodbury asked me this question, “What do you think the biggest obstacle is to inspiring girls to becoming leaders in our society?” Having just spoken about the values that the Girl Scouts stand for and consciously make an effort to communicate to their girls – honor, integrity, loyalty, courage, and patriotism – I replied that they must view leadership as a choice that would interfere with other interests.
“No,” she said. “The majority of girls feel that in order to be a leader in today’s society, they have to become liars and they do not want to compromise the values they are learning as Girl Scouts in order to become leaders.”
In the minds of these young women, leadership and lying have become one and the same choice. A leader is a liar - simple as that. Obviously we can find leaders who are not liars – sure we can. But that’s not the point, is it? The point is that these girls now associate the entire call to leadership as a compromise of integrity and honor. And whose fault is that? Surely we must all ask ourselves that question.
Out here on the margins, the truth is the only weapon we have; even leaving morality aside, we don't have the funding to sustain the vast edifice of bullshit and lies that supports the kleptocracy; professors, think tank "fellows," pollsters, public relations consultants, strategists, oppo researchers and even the meme laundries at career "progressive" blogs are all very expensive!
To me, the midterms present nothing but opportunity; I suspect that many of those who decided not to support the Ds don't want to deal with the lying any more, either. After all, what was "hope and change" but a lie? And now, here are the truly best and brightest, saying exactly the same thing. These ideas can only get stronger.
I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.
Nothing worse than a twelve year old female pointing out to you the fact that you are full of crap.
It happens... It is a natural selection thing.
In case of current ‘leaders’, most are puppets.
Exeption...Tea Party.
“One might wonder why the Girl Scouts have been spared the painful attacks that have been launched upon the Boy Scouts by the Left in recent years. The reasons are simple: the Girl Scouts allow homosexuals and atheists to join their ranks, and they have become a pro-abortion, feminist training corps .... If the Girl Scouts of America can't get back to teaching real character, perhaps it will be time to look for our cookies elsewhere.”
Hans Zeiger, a 25-year-old Eagle Scout and a Republican candidate for Washington state's House of Representatives
The GS of today are not the GS of our youth. Their uppermost leaders are mostly lesbians, they’ve changed their philosophy into some new agey UN thing and the organization has formal ties with Planned Parenthood. Juliette Lowe is turning in her grave.
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“On my honor I promise to do my best for God and my Country, to help people everyday, especially those at home.”
That WAS the GS pledge. It gave the godless freaks conniptions.
Not all leaders are liars.
Some of them are just plain stupid!
Then there are the smart, honest ones like we have presently.
We achieved 7 more states because of our smart and honest leader that all others refused to tell us about!
Another consequence of liberal leadership.
This is a bizarre interview. If Girl Scouts as a group feel that to be a leader is to be a liar, that says a lot about the Girl Scout hierarchy and/or the Girl Scout definition of leadership. Something is not adding up.
I guess I would say that Liberal and Progressive “leadership” is accomplished through lies, while Conservative leadership seems to arise from telling the truth.
To be a Leftist leader IS to be a liar because most Leftists leaders are pathological liars.
I’ve thought about it and have decided that CEO Tamara Woodbury, herself a Liberal, has confused “leader” and “bureaucrat” in her thinking.
That, in itself, is a typical Liberal mistake. Liberals believe that Leadership is a thing bestowed, either from above or below, rather than a thing earned.
Real Leaders always take the first step alone. Liberal leaders are always followers.
You are right. Real leaders always to the first step alone while Leftists (usually in a group) will build a consensus and take their steps together as a group.
Yeah -- gives them a target rich environment.
The Clinton legacy.
Yes it is true that some lesbians have used the Girl Scouts as a recruitment tool. Young vulnerable girls being their target.
Not only that. My neighbor’s daughter is a girl scout. She was working on some kind of environmental badge where she had to study global warming. Pure U.N. drivel.
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