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rahl · 09-30-2009, 12:24 PM

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He currently has a vested interest in being correct. Given that interest I have to take what he says and put into perspective. He may be correct, but he could be wrong - it would be embarrassing if he is proved to be wrong. We would need multiple independent sources arriving at the same conclusion to make me conclude "success".

He doesn't have a vested interest in being correct. His job is to report the facts. The facts in Iraq were no wmd's. The facts in iran are no wmd's.

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The above is an example of leadership. It doesn't matter if I agree or not, if you ran for President, won, and then acted in accordance with what you ran on, I would still make my case but I would defer to your leadership. At the end of the day, on many issues we face I think we need to be "all in" or "out".[/QUOTE]

Except that in reality you can't be all in or all out. You gotta have room for compromise. This is what Bush failed to realise and why we are in the mess we are in now.

09-30-2009, 12:24 PM	#24 (permalink)
rahl Junkie Location: Ohio	[ He currently has a vested interest in being correct. Given that interest I have to take what he says and put into perspective. He may be correct, but he could be wrong - it would be embarrassing if he is proved to be wrong. We would need multiple independent sources arriving at the same conclusion to make me conclude "success". He doesn't have a vested interest in being correct. His job is to report the facts. The facts in Iraq were no wmd's. The facts in iran are no wmd's. ---------- Post added at 04:24 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:23 PM ---------- [/COLOR] The above is an example of leadership. It doesn't matter if I agree or not, if you ran for President, won, and then acted in accordance with what you ran on, I would still make my case but I would defer to your leadership. At the end of the day, on many issues we face I think we need to be "all in" or "out".[/QUOTE] Except that in reality you can't be all in or all out. You gotta have room for compromise. This is what Bush failed to realise and why we are in the mess we are in now. __________________ "Your life is Yours alone...Rise up and live it"