Shouldn't we expect more out of the Presidency? Shouldn't there be higher expectations of the responsibility of this office?
As a Navy Officer...the leadership paradigm we were taught was always that the CO was responsible for everything on their ship. It appears to me that our POTUS, especially with Trump, can get away with just about …
Shouldn't we expect more out of the Presidency? Shouldn't there be higher expectations of the responsibility of this office?
As a Navy Officer...the leadership paradigm we were taught was always that the CO was responsible for everything on their ship. It appears to me that our POTUS, especially with Trump, can get away with just about anything...BECAUSE they are POTUS. Shouldn't it be the other way around?
One of my metrics of the backwards way the system is...is that Trump would have NEVER received Top Secret security clearance with his debts, bankruptcies and foreign ties. BUT...because he won the election....he jumped completely over the vetting process and became THE ISSUER of security clearances. Crazy!
1. Thank you for your service..."Haze Grey and Underway!"
2. King Rat learned from his racist father and whore-monger grandfather (kicked out of Germany for being a draft dodger) that rules, laws, and therefore democratic principles are schmucks. He is Gordan Gekko incarnate.
3. Isn't it amazing that anyone who wants to run for president doesn't have to be vetted??? I don't want to blame the supposedly brilliant Founding Fathers, they wouldn't have conceived that the likes of King Rat would be allowed into the game.
But then Aaron Burr was part of the era when when Constitution was being drafted.
Vetting candidates used to be the function of the political party. Since changing to the primary system, we perhaps havent always gotten the best. I think the parties should only allow truly qualified candidates to run in primaries to keep the Trump types out. Anyone can run as an independent candidate in the general election.
Agreed. I get the idea was to expand democracy with the primaries. But letting anyone run under the party umbrella without determining if they're fit for office is a bad idea.
Trump is one of those people who is always responsible for successes but never responsible for failure--failure is always someone else's fault. People who fail and are losers who should be kicked to the curb.
He is also the type of leader who would always be first in line for things (in case there wasn't enough to go around he needs to make sure he gets his) rather than being the tail end charlie making sure his people got what they needed.
Willing to send others into danger while making sure he is safe somewhere far away
He is kind of the anti-leader. The example of leadership you would put on a poster with the caption Don't Be That Guy.
Shouldn't we expect more out of the Presidency? Shouldn't there be higher expectations of the responsibility of this office?
As a Navy Officer...the leadership paradigm we were taught was always that the CO was responsible for everything on their ship. It appears to me that our POTUS, especially with Trump, can get away with just about anything...BECAUSE they are POTUS. Shouldn't it be the other way around?
One of my metrics of the backwards way the system is...is that Trump would have NEVER received Top Secret security clearance with his debts, bankruptcies and foreign ties. BUT...because he won the election....he jumped completely over the vetting process and became THE ISSUER of security clearances. Crazy!
Jeff,
1. Thank you for your service..."Haze Grey and Underway!"
2. King Rat learned from his racist father and whore-monger grandfather (kicked out of Germany for being a draft dodger) that rules, laws, and therefore democratic principles are schmucks. He is Gordan Gekko incarnate.
3. Isn't it amazing that anyone who wants to run for president doesn't have to be vetted??? I don't want to blame the supposedly brilliant Founding Fathers, they wouldn't have conceived that the likes of King Rat would be allowed into the game.
But then Aaron Burr was part of the era when when Constitution was being drafted.
Vetting candidates used to be the function of the political party. Since changing to the primary system, we perhaps havent always gotten the best. I think the parties should only allow truly qualified candidates to run in primaries to keep the Trump types out. Anyone can run as an independent candidate in the general election.
Agreed. I get the idea was to expand democracy with the primaries. But letting anyone run under the party umbrella without determining if they're fit for office is a bad idea.
Amen!
Trump is one of those people who is always responsible for successes but never responsible for failure--failure is always someone else's fault. People who fail and are losers who should be kicked to the curb.
He is also the type of leader who would always be first in line for things (in case there wasn't enough to go around he needs to make sure he gets his) rather than being the tail end charlie making sure his people got what they needed.
Willing to send others into danger while making sure he is safe somewhere far away
He is kind of the anti-leader. The example of leadership you would put on a poster with the caption Don't Be That Guy.