Where Have All the Leaders Gone? (Lee Iacocca)

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[RockinRight]

He comes across as someone who SHOULD be a conservative, but THINKS he’s a liberal, because he’s always believed the Republicans=bad Democrats=good line.

[Steve_Seattle]

"For an 82 year old geezer.... he makes some pretty good points."

I think he sounds like a moron. To condemn Bush for allegedly "trampling on the Constitution," and then harken back to the good old days of FDR and Truman is simply to falsify history. Does Iacocca remember that FDR ordered tens of thousands of Japanese Americans into relocation camps, and heavily censored the press and personal mail during WWII? Does he remember that Truman launched an "unnecessary" war in Korea that cost 30,000 American lives and led to a stalemate that persists to this day? Does he remember that Truman dropped atomic bombs on two cities, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians in two days? Does he remember that Truman was rebuffed by the Supreme Court on several occasions? Iacocca should shut his senile yapper.

[drew]

P.J. O'Rourke on Iacocca: "Lee Iacocca is a hero for our time--a conceited big-mouth gladhanding huckster who talked the government into loaning his company piles of money."

"He is a paranoid and an egomaniac. But those are not the terms. They are too clinical and blame-evading. We need older, stricter words. The man is consumed by pride and besotted with vanity."

"(H)e is being bruited about as a Democratic presidential candidate. The man deserves no better."

From "The Deep Thoughts of Lee Iacocca" in Give War a Chance

[griswold3]

Lee drinks too much of the KoolAide.
Look around and see the product of ‘government schools’ that have taught us NOT to be competitive.
Our increasing dependence on Government has led us here. The left leaning MSM has lead us to disbelieve our leaders. (I bet Lee couldn’t keep up with GW’s reading list.)
The MSM’s mantra is the truth is what I tell you it is.

[mimaw]

I don’t think xanax does anything for senility. I think Iacocca should do something about the global warming emergency and assume room temperature.

[Ouderkirk]

THis from the man who brought you the exploding Ford Pinto...no thanks Lee, you’re just not that good or smart.

[acapesket]

Anybody who quotes and believes Joe Biden needs some serious help.

[RockinRight]

To be fair, didn’t Chrysler pay back the government and do so ahead of schedule?

[reagan_fanatic]

We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff

I tell you what, you bloviating, decrepit, flaming old fatass - how about we elect YOU President and YOU can make the hard decisions that mean life or death, steer your nation through a 9/11 and a world full of crazed fanatics who just can't WAIT to finish the job bin Laden, Mohammed Atta and the rest started.

I for one couldn't WAIT until YOUR first international crisis and stand back and call you every name in the book while you stutter and stammer about 'staying YOUR course'.

So, in the meantime, until you assume the mantle of the Presidency of the United States, stuff some Tucks medicated pads up your ass and

STFU!!!

[RexBeach]

LOL!

[PCBMan]

“Then, instead of taking the quickest route back to Washington and immediately going on the air to reassure the panicked people of this country, he decided it wasn’t safe to return to the White House.”

This isn’t a good point. It’s SOP. I was sick and tired of hearing this repeatedly back in 2001.

[headstamp]

He’s got a book to sell.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Speaking of tax-cuts for the wealthy,...more and more those slimy legislators are hiding the true rates people pay. They give so many tax credits to people while phasing out those credits to higher income people that the real rates are covered up. For example, college tuition. If you land in the phase out income level, you pay an extra 10% tax on your income that falls between $100,000 and $120,000 (I think...somewhere around there). Now if you earn $40million, the loss of that tax credit does not represent a huge percentage increase (though I think a credit like that should be given to everyone or no one). But the guy who just barely hits the phase out mark is slapped with a hefty tax percentage increase, only it is a hidden increase. So the left can keep crying that the tax cuts were all for the rich, but the truth is that the real rates are hidden. Oh...and consider the person who hits the other side of this, who gets all these tax credits for different things and it greatly reduces his overall tax rate. Yet you never see that calculated into these Democrat talking points. And what about all the child tax credits, the "earned" income credits and all of that? The effect of these tax credits when you consider them in the tax percentage rate context is huge.

Even the standard personal deduction is reduced for higher income people. It really slaps those who just hit the cutoff mark.

[what's up]

Good points?

Lee Iacocco is a big whiner.

Yuk...can't stand him.

[iopscusa]

PJ sums up this gasbag well:
“Iacocca is a hero for our time—a conceited big-mouth gladhanding huckster who talked the government into loaning his company piles of money.”

[Prokopton]

You might want to look here for the true story.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/bg276.cfm

[CSM]

“The President of the United States is given a free pass to ignore the Constitution, tap our phones, and lead us to war on a pack of lies. Congress responds to record deficits by passing a huge tax cut for the wealthy (thanks, but I don’t need it). The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs. While we’re fiddling in Iraq, the Middle East is burning and nobody seems to know what to do. And the press is waving pom-poms instead of asking hard questions.”

No need to read further. This senile old man is living in bizarro world. He has everything reversed. It is sad really.

[gogeo]

The last paragraph sounds like Lee, but not anything before that...

Lee is a salesman by temperment and training. He's made enough mistakes in his life to keep himself busy.

[TheBridge]

Silly rant that was. However, there was one good point about "communication". GW Bush is a good man, but a lousy communicator. He also has the weakest (basically non-existent) PR Team the U.S. has ever seen. For the most part, the left-wing media is to blame, but for crimminy sake - get some good news out there and stop with the dancing to bongo drums.

[ishabibble]

My first thought too! Only I was imaging Lee and Snoop Dog in their matching golf outfits commercial. Anything for a buck, I suppose!