Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bridge Player who wrote (70250)	6/2/2008 1:53:40 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541059

Hard to ignore someone who has made it to a mid- or upper-level job and is shooting for one of the top-level brass rings. When I first went to Washington, one of the old hands there preached to me the mantra, "Never apologize and never explain." He thought it made you look weak. I never forgot that advice. I never took it either, so my time in government service wasn't filled with butting heads with everybody in sight. Some folks I knew who did that made it to the top, but more who didn't came out ahead. In the political ranks, some fallen stars like Gingrich and Delay come to mind, probably Bob Wright and Al D'Amato too. I'm sure I have forgotten several more from both parties. Loudmouths who flamed out due to their own ego and hubris.