Friday, June 06, 2008

not the cowering kind

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6 comments:

Arelcao Akleos said...

Sooooo......a parody? Well, if it was written in, say, Iowa, by some BuChenCabaNeocon CHICKENhawk, maybe. But it's in San Fran, by a gaily bedecked Pepet from PP.
Ah, Chancellor Obama, Tomorrow DOES belong to Zee.

6/06/2008 4:18 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...

"There are many qualities of leadership of course, which Nye examines, but what struck my eye in this political season was his discussion of "charisma." It comes from the Greek for "divine gift, or gift of grace," and those so gifted include, in Nye's eye, Mahatma Gandhi, Adolf Hitler, Martin Luther King, Winston Churchill, Benito Mussolini, Tony Blair, Fidel Castro, Nelson Mandela, Osama bin Laden, Jack Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt, Joan of Arc, and Eva Peron.

Charisma can be a great source power, i.e. the power to persuade rather than force, but then soft power itself can be put to evil use. Hitler came to power through free elections, after all, and his speeches brought his audiences to a frenzy. And bin Laden spreads his lethal mischief by persuasion rather than coercion.

"Does charisma originate in the individual, in the followers, or in the situation?" Nye asks. The answer seems to be all three"

H.D.S Greenaway, discussing Nye's "Power to Lead", in March of this year.

Obama is all about the followers and the situation. He has the objective charisma of an accountant trapped between Bella Abzug's "Big 'Uns"

6/06/2008 4:38 PM
Mr roT said...

I am in Italy enjoying fine meals. Please don't bring up Bella Abzug (as she was never) much less her glands. Any of them.

But yeah. Obama is so all flash that he makes these poof crazy.

6/06/2008 5:45 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...

Sorry about that,JJ, never again shall the "Zug" be mentioned while you sojourn in Italy.
.....But there's always Helen Thomas

6/06/2008 9:45 PM
Mr roT said...

that's low... ah, better

6/07/2008 8:03 AM
Arelcao Akleos said...

Why couldn't Portuguese lasses be more like their Italian brethren?
It's Bush's fault. Goddamn Amerikka!

6/07/2008 11:50 AM

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