House of Eratosthenes

Some simplistic sycophant linked by Rick has an idea of leadership. It’s got something to do with brazenly stealing the ideas of your opponents right out in broad daylight.

There’s even talk of extending the Bush tax cuts until they expire on their own in 2011, rather than cancelling them sooner, in order to further stimulate.

Clearly, the deficit will not be a priority in the first couple of years of Obama’s first term, so any stimulus measures they feel will help will be considered. Good for them.

Got that?

President Bush signed a tax cut measure.

It worked.

President-Elect Obama campaigned, day and night, week after week month after month, that His Holiness was going to repeal those.

Now that Chosen One is actually gonna get the job on January 20, He has figured out He’d better do what the lame duck was doing to stimulate the economy.

So…leadership is going “Omigosh! I’d better do what that other guy was doing now that I’m about to get called out on my crap!”

Okay…well…Dr. Helen has another idea of leadership. It has a lot less to do with talking and copying, and a lot more to do with doing.

This is interesting:

Stopped. Cold turkey. North Carolina authorities say a shopper clubbed an alleged carjacker with a frozen turkey as he tried to steal a woman’s car in a grocery store parking lot Sunday.

Police say 30-year-old Fred Louis Ervin of Raleigh stole money from a gas station before running across the street to a Harris Teeter store in a town just south of Raleigh. Garner police say he began beating Irene Moorman Bailey while stealing her car.

Other shoppers came to her rescue, including one who hit Ervin with the turkey. Police did not release the person’s name.

I am in the middle of reading an incredible book, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes – and Why that explains why it is that some people are prepared for disaster and others are not. One of the chapters in the book is on heroism and it found that those who are heroes like the above turkey clubber have confidence in their abilities. They tend to have an “internal locus of control” — that is, a sense that they shape their own destiny rather than looking to someone else.

Maybe the iPresident has internal locus of control.

But…I tend to doubt it. What if you were to replace that dignified, dulcet Walter-Cronkite voice with the voice of, let us say, Gilbert Gottfried? The Savior would be done, of course. You’d have ripped out all that He ever was.

He has created all this excitement around Him, because of His ability to sell ideas regardless of whether they are good or not. He can make crap look like yummy bacon. He’s an appearance manager; nothing more, nothing less. And…it’s rather interesting, that this is the quality held in common by all the democrat politicians that have captured their party’s attention, for the better part of a century now. What does it say about your party when its superstars have nothing in common with each other, save for an exceptional ability to sell unneeded and unhelpful products?

This isn’t the guy you look to when a carjacker needs a good clubbin’ with a frozen turkey. He’s there to close sales. Sales of products, to people who’d be better off without ’em. That, and to steal credit for things that weren’t really his ideas…against which He was passionately campaigning, back in the olden days a few weeks ago when there was a real chance His ideas wouldn’t be implemented. Before He was forced to change His mind.

Who are these people who think this is “leadership”? How in the world do they get dressed in the morning?

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