Why
I listen to a lot of talk radio, which is mostly conservative (Hannity, Limbaugh, Savage, etc.) . It is a nice balance to the generally-liberal tilt towards the rest of the media. Generally they have well thought out beliefs and concepts. Except when someone challenges a Republican on something, then they turn into little girly schoolchildren.
For example, a Democrat called into Hannity and said how outraged he was about the commuting of Scooter Libby’s sentence by President Bush. The caller suggested that the judicial branch of government handed down the punishment as determined by them. The caller suggested that Scooter should serve his time.
Rather than defend Bush’s executive right to commute or pardon convicts, Hannity immediately began questioning the caller about Clinton. “Do you think Clinton should have served time?” “Didn’t he commit the same crime…?”
That’s the political equivalent of justifying little Timmy’s booger picking because big brother did it first. Come on kids, get your finger out of there.
Anyway, back to the topic at hand.
Politicians are retarded because none of them have the stones to put their political career on the line. Democrats say we should get out of Iraq. Republicans say we should stay.
But the debate today only exists because there are no specific goals established. Sure, Bush talks a big game, saying that we’re not going to leave until the job is done. But what does that mean? Until there’s no more car bombings? Until Shiite and Sunni love each other? The most frequent answer I hear is until the Iraqi government is stable enough to maintain rule. What does that mean? Until they’re strong enough until invade Iran? Democrats say we need to leave now because the mission is accomplished, or the war cannot be won. Which one is it? You should read up on Centrism if you haven’t yet.
This vagueness is everywhere. How many times have you heard “progress”, “succeeding”, “confident”, “it needs time”, in the news lately? These are all just uncertainty in different clothing.
This rarely happens in business. We’re already entering the 2008 planning season. When my boss asks me the plan for 2008, what if I said “we’ll succeed”? Or better yet, “don’t worry, we’ll succeed.” And when he asks how much we’ll grow…”we’ll grow a lot.”
Ambiguousness has no room in business, it shouldn’t in politics either.
Find me someone more concerned about making America better than their next reelection, and I’ll vote for them. Republican or Democrat.