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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Brian P. who wrote (14890)	3/11/2000 8:20:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) of 769667

I guess you missed the Reagan-RFK debate in CA over the Vietnam War. It believe it occurred in 1967 or 1968. Reagan was an easy victor over RFK before the normally hostile university audience. RFK was furious over aides for getting him into that "Reagan thing" on what was supposed to be an event geared to establishing his totally new anti-war credentials. Many confuse the executive perspective with being intellectually limited. It should be remembered that Eisenhower was similarly tagged by the Media (and FDR most famously - "first class temperament, second class intellect"). In sharp contrast to the uninformed, limited people who largely report the news, many prominent Fortune 500 CEOs gave Reagan the highest marks for his executive leadership, noting that it is not the job of a CEO to know the minutiae, but to see the big picture, to know where he wants to lead and to pick good people to help him/her fulfill that vision. There has been much commentary on how so-called "smart" Presidents like Carter and Clinton have failed as executives/leaders because they did not understand precisely that - what the proper role of an executive was, grasping the big picture and leading the way. That's why Clinton has been properly tagged as "the President of small things" - he still governs like the head of a small, backward state. It has been pointed out most recently by George Will that the Media/Dems always tries to paint the GOP candidate as the "dumb candidate". In that way they try to discredit his campaign and message. At the same time we see how they overlook the extreme examples of stupidity by AlGore and morph the issue of AlGore's illegal fund raising activities into one for phoney "reform", providing a diversion meant to put the GOP candidate on the defensive. Orwellian stuff.

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