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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (66964)	9/12/2005 11:58:13 PM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Re: "Delegation should not be viewed as abdication of responsibility." Of course it shouldn't, and it isn't. George Bush has to feel bad, if he has a heart after all that's been said of him on this thread. As a practical matter and by definition, delegation means someone else takes over certain jobs. Those individuals act autonomously. Those who thus perform the work can, in fact, make mistakes of their own making, of greater or lesser degrees, and they deserve to be and are, often held accountable. By the very nature of delegation, often the man at the top (President of your choice, for instance) had so little to do with or control over the screw-up of the day, that he is not reasonably considered by anyone to be so responsible as the actual decision maker. As true as the President's failure and responsibility in this instance is, Presidents are not elected because they are expected to be experts on disaster recovery who would personally overrule others who are charged with this specific task. Fingers on pulses and artful delegation may make a good manager, but they don't necessarily save the day in a situation like Katrina. Allowing private and public help to flow would have saved the day, and there may well have been numerous highly guilty decisionmakers behind the various disgustingly poor choices made by President Bush, Congress, FEMA, the GOVERNOR, and the MAYOR of N.O (our public servants all). I said at the very beginning that the best part of the effort required here would be accomplished by private citizens, and military helicoptors not withstanding, that's about the truth. If you are suggesting it, I have no reason to believe Clinton would have overruled anyone to save the day any more than did Bush (but this is a moot speculation your talk of Clinton, in any event. We'll never know).