Jun

9

Obama and Bo, the first dogIdeological diversity would make a difference if the different perspectives were delivering reasonable suggestions for correcting the problem and preventing repeats, but so far I have seen none of that. All ideological diversity gives us today is multiple collections of whining idiots lowering the level of discourse. I'm not a fan of the perspectives on CNBC either, but I would give them credit for running a series featuring people who have a clear suggestion or slate of suggestions.

The similarities in the Katrina/BP situations are that clearly neither leader was prepared for the disaster, both leaders were slow and ineffective in their response to the disaster, and no one has yet come up with a solution that will even mitigate a recurrence of similar disasters. I think we're all willing to admit that a President has enough on his plate so that he will get caught by surprise on occasion, but we do want to see a quick recovery from that shock.

I think we can all help our leaders (and they certainly need help) by focusing our discussions on problem resolution and prevention. All discussions of blame and responsibility seem to be a distraction at best.

We may not like the leaders that we have, but there is no good reason to believe that better leadership would have been offered by the other choices that were offered to us. We will continue to get leaders whose common attribute is the ability to raise cash for their campaigns because those are the only people who get to play the game.


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