"Cheney Lectures Kerry on True Leadership"...a REAL headline, folks

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Cheney Lectures Kerry on True Leadership

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=536&e=7&u=/ap/20040916/ap_on_el_pr/cheney

RENO, Nev. - Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) criticized John Kerry (news - web sites) for telling National Guard veterans Thursday that he'll always tell the truth to the American people, saying "true leadership requires the ability to make a decision."

Cheney portrayed Kerry as indecisive on Iraq (news - web sites), noting the senator's vote against $87 billion for troops and reconstruction after voting to give President Bush (news - web sites) the authority to go to war against Saddam Hussein (news - web sites).



"Senator Kerry said today that leadership starts with telling the truth, but the American people also know that true leadership requires the ability to make a decision," Cheney said at a campaign rally.

"True leadership is sticking with the decision in the face of political pressure and true leadership is standing for your principles regardless of your audience or your most recent political advisers," he said. Bush makes a decision and sticks with it, Cheney said, regardless of the fallout.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Kerry should respond,"Is anyone surprised Cheney doesn't equate

truthfulness with leadership?"

[Vincardog]

2. Resident bush is told his decision and sticks with it reguardless of reali

y

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. True leadership

means deciding to lie, Dick? I don't think so.

[Arkana]

4. Yes, yes, Mr. Fuck Yourself

We all know that being President means "staying the course"...even in the face of over 1000 dead Americans in Iraq, Osama bin Laden still loose, Iraq devolving into a haven for terrorists, and our economy being flushed gracefully down the toilet.

Bring 'em on! Isn't that right, Vice President Fuck Yourself?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. W is decisively wrong and then he makes excuses but is stubborn. nt

[spooky3]

6. Social psychologists call this "escalation of commitment to a bad

decision", when one keeps devoting resources with the evidence clearly indicates one's chosen the wrong path. It's well documented in poor management.

[BootinUp]

15. I've heard it called "Riding a dead horse"

:)

[spooky3]

16. And speaking of that...

Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, in managing any business we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following:

1. Buying a stronger whip.

2. Changing riders.

3. Saying things like "This is the way we always have ridden this horse."

4. Appointing a committee to study the horse.

5. Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.

6. Increasing the standards to ride dead horses.

7. Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse.

8. Creating a training session to increase our riding ability.

9. Comparing the state of dead horses in today's environment.

10. Change the requirements declaring that "This horse is not dead."

11. Hire contractors to ride the dead horse.

12. Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed.

13. Declaring that "No horse is too dead to beat."

14. Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance.

15. Do a Cost Analysis Study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper.

16. Purchase a product to make dead horses run faster.

17. Declare the horse is "better, faster and cheaper" dead.

18. Form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses.

19. Revisit the performance requirements for horses.

20. Say this horse was procured with cost as an independent variable.

21. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.

[BootinUp]

18. lol, excellent examples. n/t

[liberalpragmatist]

7. Kerry's Response Should Be...

"Truth is the essence of making good decisions."

OR

"Expect Bush and Cheney to stubbornly cling to a failed decision and call it 'leadership'."

[Pepperbelly]

8. Turn Tom Harkin loose on Snarl ...

Harkin loves insulting the evil son of a bitch.

[JetCityLiberal]

9. b*sh makes a decision and sticks with it...

who gives a flying f*ck if the decision is based on a LIE!!!

These people are too stupid to be real, but I know they are real and they all have to go.

Hey 'dick', checked out the death toll in Iraq lately? Didn't think so...

http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
http://icasualties.org/oif/



JetCityLiberal

[Parche]

10. decision

bush makes a decision, and sticks with it, whether he is wrong or not
and 100% of the time he is wrong

[DRoseDARs]

11. What I don't understand about his visit here today...

...is why they shut down the northbound lanes of US-395 for several miles when the airport is only about a mile away from the Reno Hilton along 2 surface streets: Terminal Way and Mill Street. There is no freeway travel involved there. :wtf:

This is going to snarl traffic something fierce as 5pm rolls around...

[blm]

12. A TRUE leader would have READ the Hart-Rudman report on global terror

when it was handed to him on Jan 30, 2001 and implemented its urgent proposals ASAP.

[Rose Siding]

13. C'mon Edwards, that's a softball.

Hit it.

[Tom Rinaldo]

14. Leadership requires distinguishing a bad choice from a good one

and bad advice from good advice. Leadership requires sound judgment, not blind faith. Good leadership lessens problems, it doesn't magnify them. Leadership attracts Allies, it doesn't repel them.

[A_Possum]

17. Haha, keep it up, Cheney

You must think we're all as stupid as you are, loser. You and your Excuse President have screwed up everything you ever attempted.

Iraq is burning. Smell it?

The rest of us do.