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In reply to the discussion: Criticize the President? We should not even be having serious conversations about this. [View all]The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)We hired people to work for us.
We can call them leaders but only so much as they are hired to lead the battle for the ideals/laws we hired them to work on.
When the employee does well, praise for a good job. When they don't, well pull em into the office and explain they need to do it better.
Now...one of the problems I see are the people pulling Obama and others into their office are Jamie Dimon, Wall street, etc.
They don't read DU all that much I am sure
Some probably do (as well as many other places) to keep up with the pulse of things (well, they probably have someone read it for them).
Many worked hard to get their employee the job. We had national elections, billions spent, countless hours invested.
Our job now is to make sure that those we have employed work together for our goals and call them out in anyway we can to get their attention when they don't.
***This is Different*** than when the people who didn't want our people to have the job call them out. Their goal is to set up their next employee to replace ours when the time comes for rotation. Their goals differ greatly from ours and they will use anything they can to spread fear/anger/etc because they believe it will affect the next choice (which is why we might be harder on their employee than our own).
We balance the need to complain about many things because it only adds to the overall critique of our person. So while pointing out the bad we also tend to spend more time pointing out the positive as well to get a truer version of the overall performance.