[Leica] Campaign 2008 pictures

[pjleeson at mchsi.com (Philip Leeson)]

Good point.
I think term limits are a great idea; I would hope that legal  
challenges will derail Bloomberg.
But they would need to be nationwide, as no state wants to give up  
it's seat on powerful committees no matter which party is in the  
majority.
Witness Iowa, which routinely re-elects ultra-liberal Harkin and ultra- 
conservative Grassley (I've voted for both)
And a line item veto for the President would also be good; favored by  
presidents of both parties.  I think it could trim the pork pretty  
effectively.

Phil
On Nov 9, 2008, at 9:30 AM, slobodan dimitrov wrote:

> 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
>>>>>