Quote of the Day
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 18th, 2011 4:32 am by HL
Quote of the Day
“What we need is for you to stand up, GOP, and fight. GOP leaders need to learn how to fight like a girl.”
— Sarah Palin, quoted by CNN.
Brilliant Politician or Timid Leader?
David Gergen: “As a politician, Obama was also smart Wednesday in leaving so little for Republicans to shoot at in his own ‘plan’. On every hard policy question — e.g., would you start taxing employees for health benefits paid by employers — he said he would leave the answers to someone else. On a national dilemma that will inevitably require public sacrifices, he didn’t put forward a single, concrete proposal of his own that would disturb a majority of voters. Clever!”
“But it is that very cleverness that undermines his reputation as a leader. We look up to leaders who have been willing to make hard choices on their own, put them forward with courage and rally people to join them — think of Lincoln, Churchill, Mandela and many more. The historian Michael Beschloss wrote a stirring book about the courage of past presidents. Where is that courage in the White House today?”
