Comments on: What I’m Reading Thursday, November 10, 2011 http://rationallythinkingoutloud.com/blog/2011/11/10/what-im-reading-thursday-november-10-2011/ Just one guy thinking out loud on a the issues in religion, atheism, politics & science Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:53:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: klem http://rationallythinkingoutloud.com/blog/2011/11/10/what-im-reading-thursday-november-10-2011/#comment-439 klem Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:52:37 +0000 http://rationallythinkingoutloud.com/?p=1895#comment-439 What makes great leaders great is their ability to articulate and communicate ideas. " I agree, and Bush fits your description perfectly. What makes great leaders great is their ability to articulate and communicate ideas. ”

I agree, and Bush fits your description perfectly.

]]> By: Jerrald Hayes http://rationallythinkingoutloud.com/blog/2011/11/10/what-im-reading-thursday-november-10-2011/#comment-435 Jerrald Hayes Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:45:09 +0000 http://rationallythinkingoutloud.com/?p=1895#comment-435 <p>Sorry Klem but if Rick Perry wasn't already irrelevant he is certainly irrelevant now and can be ignored and left alone to fall into the dustbin. I watched the debate last night and if I was a boxing referee I would have stepped in and stopped the fight it after only a couple of seconds into his gaff. He is done as a Presidental candidate if not in elected politics altogether. He is toast.</p> <p>He already has fluttering gaffes like this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47kZofrFwQ0" rel="nofollow"><strong>Perry on Romney's Flip Flop - YouTube</strong></a> and the now infamous <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSJv-2qfDNc" rel="nofollow"><strong>Rick Perry's drunken speech (3 minute edit) - YouTube</strong></a>.</p> <p>This is <strong>NOT</strong> the guy you want talking and negotiating with the Chinese or other international leaders much less our own. They would walk all over him and make him and the U.S. Presidency look like a farce. He might be better than Muammar Gaddafi but Gaddafi is dead now so who is he's going to win his points with in diplomatic and economic meetings and conferences?</p> <blockquote> <p><em>"Oops, I forgot what I was thinking about."</em></p> </blockquote> <p>This isn't about forgetting what you're thinking about in a freeform brain storming session (that happens to all of us) its about recalling policy you've given a lot of great thought to over time and have indelibly etched in your mind.</p> <p>The other week Joe Scarborough compared Sarah Palin with Herman Cain saying:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/02/joe-scarborough-national-media-herman-cain_n_1072145.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Joe Scarborough: Herman Cain Getting 'Free Walk' On Foreign Policy (VIDEO)</a></p> <p>For comparison, Scarborough pointed to Palin's interview with Charlie Gibson, and the ensuing debate about whether she knew what the Bush doctrine was. "She looks like Averell Harriman compared to Herman Cain and I mean it," he insisted. "Sarah Palin could absolutely take down Herman Cain in a foreign policy Jeopardy contest right now."</p> </blockquote> <p>Geez, where does that leave Perry?</p> <p>What makes great leaders great is their ability to articulate and communicate ideas. Perry is a absolute total failure at that.</p> Sorry Klem but if Rick Perry wasn’t already irrelevant he is certainly irrelevant now and can be ignored and left alone to fall into the dustbin. I watched the debate last night and if I was a boxing referee I would have stepped in and stopped the fight it after only a couple of seconds into his gaff. He is done as a Presidental candidate if not in elected politics altogether. He is toast.

He already has fluttering gaffes like this Perry on Romney’s Flip Flop – YouTube and the now infamous Rick Perry’s drunken speech (3 minute edit) – YouTube.

This is NOT the guy you want talking and negotiating with the Chinese or other international leaders much less our own. They would walk all over him and make him and the U.S. Presidency look like a farce. He might be better than Muammar Gaddafi but Gaddafi is dead now so who is he’s going to win his points with in diplomatic and economic meetings and conferences?

"Oops, I forgot what I was thinking about."

This isn’t about forgetting what you’re thinking about in a freeform brain storming session (that happens to all of us) its about recalling policy you’ve given a lot of great thought to over time and have indelibly etched in your mind.

The other week Joe Scarborough compared Sarah Palin with Herman Cain saying:

Joe Scarborough: Herman Cain Getting ‘Free Walk’ On Foreign Policy (VIDEO)

For comparison, Scarborough pointed to Palin’s interview with Charlie Gibson, and the ensuing debate about whether she knew what the Bush doctrine was. "She looks like Averell Harriman compared to Herman Cain and I mean it," he insisted. "Sarah Palin could absolutely take down Herman Cain in a foreign policy Jeopardy contest right now."

Geez, where does that leave Perry?

What makes great leaders great is their ability to articulate and communicate ideas. Perry is a absolute total failure at that.

]]> By: klem http://rationallythinkingoutloud.com/blog/2011/11/10/what-im-reading-thursday-november-10-2011/#comment-434 klem Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:00:39 +0000 http://rationallythinkingoutloud.com/?p=1895#comment-434 "I don’t think it is unfair at all. I don’t think is that bright at all." Typical lefty, thinks that you gotta be a genius to be a leader. Leaders are almost never brilliant, but they are smart enough to know they can merely hire geniuses, they're a dime a dozen. What arrogance, what a defeatist attitude. I always wonder how lefties get through each day. “I don’t think it is unfair at all. I don’t think is that bright at all.”

Typical lefty, thinks that you gotta be a genius to be a leader. Leaders are almost never brilliant, but they are smart enough to know they can merely hire geniuses, they’re a dime a dozen.

What arrogance, what a defeatist attitude.

I always wonder how lefties get through each day.

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