Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Experience has never been the main criteria. The system runs itself to a great extent. Leadership, and an appropriate amount of Charisma, is all that's ever been required. Remember those heady days in the barracks? Leaders were picked first for their innate skills, and then they were educated in the tools of leadership. Acquiring the "hat of command" seems to somehow produce its own inhibiters for doing the wrong thing, and generating an impulse to pursue the right course. In AIT, the ones with potential, and I underscore that word, were culled out and given shake and bake courses in leadership, aka as instant experience. The sergeants constantly reminded us that leadership is made, and not something one is born with. Nothing different with most jobs dependent on an election. I think we should take greater askance over the coming tyranny in the state of New York. There, an individual used their "experience" as a reason to thwart the will of the electorate with manipulating a city council to circumvent a statute for two terms. Here is a greater source of potential and future damage to democracy, because all too often, as New York goes, so does the rest of the nation. s.d. On Nov 9, 2008, at 6:36 AM, <rmcclure2@woh.rr.com> <rmcclure2@woh.rr.com> wrote: > What's even scarier is that our new President, also "pretty easy on > the eyes" has less political and administrative experience than > she. Just a thought; now returning to my underground resistance > bunker. > > Rob > ---- Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie@btinternet.com> wrote: >> Ah come on - she is pretty easy on the eye. It is her profound >> lack of >> knowledge that is really scary and that won't show in the pictures. >> :-) >> >> On 8 Nov, 2008, at 18:27, <rmcclure2@woh.rr.com> >> <rmcclure2@woh.rr.com> wrote: >> >>> In the interest of balance I should probably put up the photos I >>> took at a Sarah Palin rally, but that undoubtedly would offend the >>> sensibilities of the majority of the folks on this site and provoke >>> juvenile comments, so I will just enjoy them in private. <G> >>> >>> Rob >>> ---- Philip Leeson <pjleeson@mchsi.com> wrote: >>>> Now that the US presidential race is decided, perhaps it's safe to >>>> show some photos. >>>> Some were taken with a Digilux 2, others with a D80, and the one of >>>> our daughter with a nameless P&S. >>>> >>>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pleeson/Campaign2008/> >>>> >>>> Thanks for looking, >>>> Phil >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >>>> information >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information