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Friday, February 19. 2010

Failure to lead?

From Krauthammer's Excuses for Obama:



In the latter days of the Carter presidency, it became fashionable to say that the office had become unmanageable and was simply too big for one man. Some suggested a single, six-year presidential term. The president's own White House counsel suggested abolishing the separation of powers and going to a more parliamentary system of unitary executive control. America had become ungovernable.


Then came Ronald Reagan, and all that chatter disappeared.



I, for one, am just as happy that leadership skills are lacking in the White House right now. Many are unhappy about it, such as this guy - a Rabbi no less - who is disappointed in his Messiah. Good grief.

Posted by The Barrister in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 11:53 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Yes, it's that strange disease that hits most of the quibbledicks who tend to go in for government: the impulse to centralize everything in the view that the country will work "better".

It's certainly not confined to you folks down south. While I'm no fan of separatism - whether the Québec kind or the Alberta version - the decentralization of power in Canada down to the provinces and even below that to municipalities is, on balance, a VERY GOOD THING.

I lived in the UK for some time. The notion of firefighters going on a national strike there just flabbergasted me. If firefighters are unhappy with their pay in a Canadian or US county or city, that's a problem for municipal authorities, not the prime minister or the president!
#1 JJM on 2010-02-19 13:02 (Reply)
I'm always grateful that American leftists are incompetent leaders and afraid of guns..
#2 NJSoldier on 2010-02-19 13:46 (Reply)
http://2164th.blogspot.com/2010/02/hits-just-keep-on-coming.html

well, it's a little late for this --but the soundtrack is AMAZING!
#3 buddy larsen on 2010-02-19 20:01 (Reply)

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