Follow The LeaderLearn Politics on mps-politics.com. Follow The Leader article will help answer your questions on Politics.We at mps-politics.com specialize in Politics. Politics at mps-politics.com provides the most up to date news and articles. If you have questions please do not hesitate to contact us.
As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!' - Lao-Tzu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I’ve just about had it with all the talk surrounding this past election. Look, I’m sorry that people were disenfranchised in Ohio but concentrating on and putting so many resources into the problems there is like the Republican perpetuated myth of people cheating the welfare system. Do people steal from the welfare system? You bet they do, but directors of corporations have stolen a hell of lot of money from people and no one is calling for the dissolution of the corporation. The welfare system effects you financially less than 1 flush of your toilet bowl per year and that’s about the same effect that the “irregularities” in Ohio have had on the overall election. The election is over. The person you voted for lost. Republicans did cheat, that’s what they do and they do it well. They are the party of the belief that the means justify the ends. That’s just another fact of life that your gonna have to get over. Suit up and get back on your pony because now we’re going to battle and it’s not just in Ohio. You can either mount up and move on or become what the conservatives have been calling you: “vacillating” or in the language of the common man “pussies”. The first step in the process of “mounting up” for battle is too be honest with yourself. Look inside, find the shortcomings and work towards remediating them. I have and what I’ve found I don’t like. Honestly, John Kerry was not my first choice for a Presidential candidate. For me, he was a compromise that I’m never going to make again. I don’t doubt for one second that John Kerry is a good man but he received my vote because I thought him to be the most elect-able alternative to Bush. That will not happen again. Forget all that you think you know about this past election. It’s all B.S.. Come on, do you really think that morals aren’t a factor in elections? Who says to them self “you know this candidate of ours is just so morally deficient but I don’t care, I’m going to vote for him anyway because he’s going to get the much needed tax code reform passed”? Morals are always a factor in elections and yes they are tied in most people’s minds to their religious beliefs. Big surprise there, huh? People don’t vote for leaders strictly for their moral positions or their ideas, they vote for the person. Do you want to know what George W. Bush offers people that John Kerry doesn’t? CERTAINTY. Yes, you heard right. For most of you reading this you are going to have a hard time believing what follows. George W. Bush has vision, he has morals, he’s decisive and strong and while you may not agree with everything he has to say, you should know that when he’s faced with a problem and because he embodies these characteristics, he won’t back down and he’s going to do the right thing. No, The Indy Voice has not lost all his marbles. This is what people believe. These characteristics are the reason why George W. Bush won the election and they are shared by all leaders. Look it doesn’t matter what YOU think the reality of the personal characteristic qualities of Bush are. The reality for 61,000,000 people is that they PERCEIVE it to be reality. The real story of this election, that has yet to be told, is that it was decided SOLELY based upon the perceived qualities of leadership. Plain and simply, the majority judged Bush as being a more capable leader. That doesn’t mean he is a capable leader, strong, decisive or moral. It just means that people perceive him that way. Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Hussein, Qaddafi, Khan, Il, and Mao Zedong are all extremists that had the backing of the people. They were not moral people. They gained their power to rule from the consent of those that they were ruling. Any of these people could have been stopped at any stage on their rise to power by the opposition of the people. People followed them because they lead. You cannot run an opposition party and expect it to be successful by just opposing, line by line or issue for issue, what the other party’s guy is pushing. You need to give people something to believe in. They don’t have to agree with everything your saying and in the case of those above, the message doesn’t even have to be one of sanity, but people need to believe that you have some kind of grand vision or direction. The Democratic Party lost not because it went too far left but because it failed to go far enough. There is no certainty in the middle. Leaders aren’t borne of compromise. George W. Bush doesn’t try to hide the fact that he is a conservative Republican. Kerry tried to run from the label of “liberal”. Bush wasn’t elected because he has compromised or moved to the middle. In fact people voted for him because he wouldn’t compromise. People that voted for Bush believed he has vision. 61,000,000 people didn’t vote for John Kerry because they perceived, accurately or not, that he had no direction. It wasn’t November 2nd when John Kerry lost the election. It was when Kerry allowed commercials to paint him as a flip-flopper that the fight was lost. The made up lies of the Swift Boat Veterans had nothing to do with it. A well-run campaign headed by a resolute leader would have looked at that incident as an opportunity to show the ferocity and strength of a decorated combat veteran. The Kerry campaign hoped it would just go away. Leaders stand up for what they believe in, for what is right, and they are willing to indefinitely fight for what moves them. This is how you get people to walk along side you. Kerry didn’t embody the characteristics of a leader and the only reason why he came as close as he did to the Presidency was because he was opposing the worst President in the history of the United States. But then again, that’s just my perception.
"Right now, because of loopholes and shelters in the tax code, a quarter of all millionaires pay lower tax rates than millions of middle-class households. Right now, Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary," Obama told a joint session of Congress. Specifically, the president is proposing to tax millionaires 30 percent of their earnings. "Washington should stop subsidizing millionaires," Obama said. "In fact, if you're earning a million dollars a year, you shouldn't get special tax subsidies or deductions." So how would the Buffett Rule really work? How many people would it affect? (Photo: Alex Wong / Getty Images) Obama Pitches Buffett Rule Again in 2012 State of the Union Address originally appeared on About.com US Politics on Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 at 18:31:25. Article Index: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 |
More Articles:1. Nationalism This article discusses how governments seek public endorsement of their policies through Nationalism. In speeches and on Vietnam memorials it always states that the soldiers, who died, died for our freedom. This is really strange and illogical. We actually lost the war. Did the victorious 'Charlie Cong' storm America and enslave us? Once we left Vietnam, we hardly had anything to do with them and they no longer posed a problem. But did they ever pose a problem? It seems the word 'Communist' was … 2. CBM’s Indo-Pak Peace Process By Lalith Ninan Will a bus running across the borders bring cordial relations between the two south asian nuclear rivals India and Pakistan? Well this is a question that will look for its answer on it own and time can only find its answer.The first bus from Srinagar to Muzaffarabad was flagged off in the an auspicious ceremony in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA president Sonia Gandhi. The April 7 trip to Muzaffarabad involves thirty passengers in a two 15 seater buses. Among the VIP trav… 3. How The Republicans Stole The 2004 US Election When I first learned that George W. Bush won the 2004 Presidential election, I was shocked. 'How could that be?' I thought. This man is a criminal. How could America have done such a horrific thing? Keep this monster as President? He is a man who has caused an estimated 100 000 deaths in Iraq.After November 2nd, bits and pieces of the truth started surfacing. As intellectuals started investigating and uncovering the evidence, it became clear that George W. and his regime committed the most hein… Credit Card 4. Read This Article if You Want to Stop Illegal Immigration By Lance Winslow Many people on both sides are literally up in arms over illegal immigration these days. We have the Minute-Men on one side being spurred on by American Patriots and Lou Dobbs and then we have ACLU on the other side saying open the borders and let’s just have a free for all no borders. The ACLU says if Mexico is our neighbor, then why do we put up fences to keep them away?There are many industries which have illegal or immigrant labor such as Carwashes, Fast Food and the Housing Construction In… |
||||
President