Tom Desrosier
Much of what we believe about ourselves, our world and our politics, we learned from someone else.
Sometimes, years later, we still cling to this stufff, long after its proven wrong.
Go figure...
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Sarah Palin administers an old fashioned Caribou Whoopass on Joe Biden
Ahhhh, relief.
Listening to legacy media yesterday, this debate was going to be about the polished statesmanship of Joe Biden against the cooing bimbo-like Sara Palin.
Gee.
But today, I am glad to say that she impressed me. If she can stand up to Joe’s barrage, while millions of people watch - I don’t think there’s much doubt that she’ll be ready to take on a corrupt and useless Congress.
Here’s some results:
Drudgreport…
Frank Lutz…
Of course if you want to believe CNN…
Good Job Sarah - we’re all proud of you.
Tom
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Did Obama fail his first test of Executive Leadership?.
Incumbent upon any executive is the task of quickly and efficiently recruiting key staff. An important responsibility, the right person will advance and support your goals; the wrong guy will unduly hamper you and pre-occupy your time with damage control.
When I was in the business of making important staff picks, I’d always be mindful that my selection should have as many of these essential traits as possible:
- Must be able to articulate and communicate my vision as if it were his own.
- Must possess common sense and be able to think and act independently on my behalf.
- Must have strengths I lack.
- Must have easily mitigated weaknesses.
- Must share my sense of morals and ethics.
- Must be able to do the job.
To date, Obama has been responsible for but one staff selection; the guy who will be his right hand man. The one person who will work behind the scenes to ensure the success of his presidency and advancement of his political agenda.
You would think that one aspiring to become the President of the United States, might know a little about this basic duty and at least be capable of picking the right guy for Vice President.
Let’s see how his choice is working out so far.
A gaffe about FDR being President in 1929…
A failure to articulate the same vision (energy policy) as Obama..
Not sharing the same ethics and criticizing a political ad Obama had approved..
And my personal favorite, which I recently wrote about, made a rather ridiculous comment about paying higher taxes being patriotic.
My point is simply this: If elected, Obama will have has the daunting task of choosing hundreds of key personnel to work in his administration, including a Cabinet, a White House staff, a plethora of Ambassadors and committee chairs… And what of all those federal judges, and God forbid, even a Supreme Court Judge or two!
Indeed.
An axiom I used to follow when selecting key staff was this: "Surround yourself with excellence, and it will no doubt rub off on you."
Obama’s first choice seems to say, "Surround yourself with buffoonery and it will no doubt rub off on you."
And so I give you Obama’s first executive decision: Joe Biden for Vice President.
Tom
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Patriotic Tax-Paying
Joe Biden, the Gandhi of modern American politics, says paying higher taxes is patriotic.
Thanks Mahatma Bidden! I was wondering how I could feel more patriotic - just pay more taxes.
That’s it?
That’s it.
In honor of your sincere outreach to America, I hereby suggest we call it…
"The Biden Patriotic Plus-Up"!
I look up to you in awed wonderment - what marvelous things you’ll do for America with all this extra money.
Gee, what do you normally do with our tax money? Let’s take a look.
- You steered $2.7 million in pork spending to a college your son had applied to. (hotair.com)
- In 2008, you secured $85,545,205 in pork (according to Taxpayers for Common Sense) for a plethora of groups from defense contractors to police departments. (harpers.org)
- In the above $85 million, some $400,000 was earmarked to D.A.R.E., an organization you knew had been described as disreputable by the GAO.
- For 2009, he is requesting $250 Milion in earmarks to pay for projects in his home state of Delaware in fiscal 2009,
Maybe your future boss will supervise you and make sure you don’t blow "The Biden Patriotic Plus-Up" on just a bunch of crap. Lets see Obama did since being elected to Congress.
- Senator Obama helped Biden in requesting $3.4 million in congressional earmarks for the clients of Biden’s lobbyist son, Hunter.
- He also secured over a million dollars in pork spending for the Hospital his wife Michelle was working at". (David M)
- In all, it looks like Obama’s 2007 earmarks were $97.4 million, and his 2008 earmarks totaled more than $330 million. (current.com)
Patriotic?
Patriotic my Arse!
Tom
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