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VIDEO: Steele: Sanford Scandal "A Problem Of Leadership"
Real Clear Politics ^ | June 30, 2009 | Real Clear Politics

Posted on 06/30/2009 8:27:47 AM PDT by ianschwartz

RNC Chairman Michael Steele on Sanford's infidelity: "It is a problem of leadership. It is a failure of individuals to understand why they were elected among some money in their community to lead in this fashion this is the price you pay. My heart goes out to Mrs. Sanford and the boys, but the governor should know better. That is not what leadership is about. It is not your personal agenda, it is your service to the community. That is what people expect. There is a higher standard for people who assume that mantle of public leadership. we have to live up to it."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: marksanford; michaelsteele

1 posted on 06/30/2009 8:27:47 AM PDT by ianschwartz
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To: ianschwartz
It is a failure of individuals to understand why they were elected among some money in their community to lead in this fashion this is the price you pay.

That's almost like English.

2 posted on 06/30/2009 8:31:38 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: ianschwartz

I am tired of the parade of the Tanned, Ken and Barbie Dolls - time to recruit some less than attractive Men and Women./Just Asking - seoul62......


3 posted on 06/30/2009 8:34:29 AM PDT by seoul62
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To: Izzy Dunne

I really hope that it was a transcription error, because the syntax is remarkably garbled. It sounds like someone who has started talking while failing to engage their brain.

OTOH, the Sanford scandal is not that hard to understand. It’s a failure to keep one’s marital vows as well as a failure to keep one’s ... (Ah! No need to be vulgar).


4 posted on 06/30/2009 8:37:25 AM PDT by neocon1984
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To: ianschwartz

Would be nice if Steele also talked that way (with better grammar) about Kennedy (all of them) Holder, Spitzer, Conyers, Rangel, Jefferson, Pelosi, Boxer . . .


5 posted on 06/30/2009 8:38:17 AM PDT by oldbill
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To: Izzy Dunne

Ebonics light...

Welcome to AmeriKa 2009.


6 posted on 06/30/2009 8:38:38 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: ianschwartz

The article said — RNC Chairman Michael Steele on Sanford’s infidelity: “It is a problem of leadership. It is a failure of individuals to understand why they were elected among some money in their community to lead in this fashion this is the price you pay. My heart goes out to Mrs. Sanford and the boys, but the governor should know better.

Ummm.., yeah! He should have known better! LOL..

No, I don’t mean that he should have known better that he would get caught. That’s “Democrat-think”...

He should have known better than to throw platitudes at the GOP electorate, while doing the “Dem-think” and walk....


7 posted on 06/30/2009 8:39:53 AM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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To: gathersnomoss
To be fair, I went and listened to the video. This is a stoopid journalism error by some bozo "journalist" who just doesn't care.

What he SAID was much more intelligible than the drivel that RCP posted.

8 posted on 06/30/2009 8:43:04 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: seoul62
I am tired of the parade of the Tanned, Ken and Barbie Dolls - time to recruit some less than attractive Men and Women.

Have you thought about the Democrat party?

/sarc

9 posted on 06/30/2009 8:43:26 AM PDT by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals Crazy!)
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To: ianschwartz

Steel Buy a clue in necessary, the Enemy is on the other side.


10 posted on 06/30/2009 8:44:12 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: Cheetahcat

if


11 posted on 06/30/2009 8:45:57 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: missnry

Waxman?


12 posted on 06/30/2009 8:51:52 AM PDT by parthian shot ((Bipartisan, are you kidding?))
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To: ianschwartz
"a problem of leadership"

Well, Steele is an expert on problems with 'leadership' given the number of issues that he's botched from day one:


13 posted on 06/30/2009 8:54:55 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Izzy Dunne

So Many = Some Money

Transcription garbled.


14 posted on 06/30/2009 9:09:22 AM PDT by ajay_kumar (Elections have consequences. Socialist Liberals are now in charge.)
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To: ajay_kumar
Yes, I posted this over there (on RCP) - I'll post it here:

What he said was:
"It's a failure of individuals to understand and appreciate why they were elected - selected among so many in their community to lead in this fashion, and when you throw that back in the voter's face, this is the price you pay."

I'm not a big Steele fan, but there's no value in distorting what he says to make him appear dumb.

15 posted on 06/30/2009 9:15:34 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: neocon1984

At my prodding, they have corrected the transcript


16 posted on 06/30/2009 9:31:47 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: missnry

All of them have many skeletons rattling in their closets. That is what politics and the system does to you: you eventually get entrapped in to the flattery, lies and deceit until your whole being gets throughly corrupted. Name me one honest, throughly clean politican, silence: there is none. Both sides have a vested interest to keep the status quo as it is, it serves their interests. There is a bright glimmer on the Republican side: Michelle Bachman, I admire her. The rest of the tanned Ken and Barbie dolls of both parties can march along to Stepford Village, where they truly belong. I would like to see Michelle run for higher office, my other nominee would be Coco, The Gorilla./Just Asking - seoul62.......


17 posted on 06/30/2009 10:26:51 AM PDT by seoul62
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