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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: SilentZ who wrote (396954)7/8/2008 9:56:07 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1575090
 
"I mean, it seems he sucked at standing up for himself and his causes"

That is a big one. He was very much a lead by example type. Unfortunately, this country doesn't reward that. It much prefers leaders who exhort the masses to do their bidding. Whether or not they actually practice what they preach doesn't seem to be an issue.

So you can have, say, a Reagan who talks about God and the importance of God in the country, yet never set foot in a church.

Notice how Carter gets ridiculed here because he donned a sweater and actually had the thermostats in the White House changed to reduce energy consumption.

It would have worked better if he had given a speech, making allusions to D-Day and a new Manhattan Project on energy, saying how we needed to do new Liberty Gardens by turning down the thermostats with images of flags waving and eagles soaring in the background...
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