Everybody loves a winner

Good points, Fred. I agree with this.

Excellent analogy!

thanks
good to hear from you John

good post Melissa

Very good Fred.

points to ponder my friend
points to ponder

Given the lack of ethics in the current Administration we must be grateful that they were not very competant. Things could be much worse.

I liked that final thought, Fred: one who plays well with others. Our current coach doesn't seem to do that very well.

Let's hope he can play well with others, including the Congress and the world of nations. It will be crucial.

is that Tampa Bob?

I love Tampa Bob!

what's up, my elusive brother?

How's life at the trib?

I fear the sports analogy applied to politics is what got us into the mess we're in.

With sports it's Us vs. Them. Team color against team color. Stand by your team no matter what. (If the star player gets arrested, hey, he's misunderstood.)

The object in sports is to win no matter what. We fool ourselves into thinking fair play ever existed. Sports doesn't allow us to come together and unite forces or work out compromises.

Now more than ever, we need to find common goals and ideals and share the playground nicely. No more dodgeball, smear the queer, or double dog dares.

LOL

I loved the analogy now lets see if they change the rules to the real game . . . !

analogies got us into the mess we're in.

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If that's the case then we as americans would be better off if we were all ignorant?

I don't understand how a vocabulary or a command of the english language can cause the mess that we are in now.

I do however understand that my mother used to say, "it's best left up to the experts"
in other words, she'd say that right before my dad would cripple the car, the plumbing, the electricity, the tree trimming.

I don't know about anyone else, but for my money, (and it is my money-tax dollars pay their salary)
I want an expert.
not a "C" student whose dad had to pay to get him accepted into college.

i'm not necessarily picking on republicans
what I am saying with this analogy is....
don't take your car to bubba's garage
right after he's done crystal meth!

I did love that Fred!
Good Job on it.

Excellent Article Fred, and I love your thought process as reflected in the Article.

Blessings ~
Rene

I say to the C students in this case "C you later." Let's get some A students of the game and do better as a team.

Hello,
Just checking my email and saw yours so thought I'd come check it out to let you know I was here.

Luv Ya Janet!

I just hope whoever we get he isn't so eager to play ball with corporations and the elite

I think Obama has stated clearly that he's not with that program.

Didn't he just tell the move on people, no 527's

I like the article, but do you really BELIEVE anything that they say during the campains???? (hahahahpains!)

It's not what you know, it's who you know.

Tammy, so often times
you are right.

You need to be educated true,
but yoou also have to have connections, sadly in this life
to get someplaces.

But it is equally true, that if you have to have that kind of help to get there
is it really worth the trip?

In a comment above, you said, "I don't know about anyone else, but for my money, (and it is my money-tax dollars pay their salary) I want an expert. not a "C" student whose dad had to pay to get him accepted into college. "

I'm not sure how old you are, Fred or where you grew up. But when I graduated high school in 1970, there were lots of kids who did horribly in college but ended up being company execs. If you read about many famous people you'll find that they didn't do well in school.

People say that Bush has a low IQ, but that's doubtful. He does have an MBA from Harvard. He did go to Yale. A C student there is probably the equivalent to an A student at some lessor schools. :-)

I was doing some research about Bush and former Presidents, because of a stupid forward someone sent to me about Bush having a lower than average IQ. There is no evidence of that.

But we do know that intellecual "brilliance" is not enough to have a successful run in the White House. Nixon, for instance had an IQ of 143; Carter graduated in the top 10% of his class at the Naval Academy; and Clinton was a Rhodes scholar. Yet theirs were flawed presidencies.

On the other hand, Truman was a high school graduate. He worked as a farmer, a railroad worker, a bookkeeper, road inspector and postmaster. Ronald Reagan was
a B-list actor with average to poor college credentials. Truman and Reagan achieved more politicall success than Nixon, Carter and Clinter who were supposedly smarter.

There is no data readily available about Bush's IQ, but you can find that his SAT score was 1206. At the time, that put him in the top 16 percent of prospective college students.

I found some articles about JFK, saying that his IQ was only 119. Kennedy graduated 65th in a class of 110 in high school.

Marilyn - How do you figure that Clinton was a flawed Presidency? I liked Clinton very much, and he had an excellent Presidency! The economy was doing GREAT when he was President.

Fred, good post! Thanks!
JP

History speaks about whether or not a President was good or bad, Jerry. Not whether or not individuals loved or hated them.

I never bring up the "C" STUDENT thing as justification for my opinion, OPINION that he is a failure
(failed at getting into college, daddy had to buy his way in. failed at his oil venture, saudis had to buy him out, baseball team-texas rangers)
no, the "C" student remark on my part is a hallmark to remind us that he is a goober-plain and simple-goober
complete with that stupid smile and that disturbing laugh he brings out at the most inopportune times.
It's just said, that people miss the point
it's not about whose ideals are better
who goes to church more often
who votes for who

it's got to be about who's best for the country.
look around you
can you honestly say you are better off now, than you were eight years ago?
$600 tax incentive check not withstanding

good posts Marilyn
good posts, all of them

"we find comfort with those who agree with us,
and growth with those who don't"

Fred, as always very in-sight-ful

good point!

Nice analogy Fred.

By extension, perhaps we shouldn't hire another manager who will just be "more of the same"...?

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Sounds like your talking about that "A" student Barack Obama.

A coach is only as good as its players...stand up folks! YES WE CAN!!!

I've never thought much about the A, B, C grading system, of our schools, and higher education. I've known far too many people who flumked out of such, and were/are very good, kind, and brilliant with great ideas.

Many people get great grades in the system, and perform poorly in real life, and conversly, many perform poorly, within the school system, and perform fanastically when they get out into real life.

Dorothy, if you had to have open heart surgery
would you want the board certified doctor
who finished top 10%
or joe's bar and grill animal doctor?

Come on! we're not talking him being a good guy
we're not talking about the Christian ethic of loving everybody

I LOVE everybody, but I wouldn't want a schmuck operating on myh back who wasn't that smart!

By the same logic, I don't want DUBYA part II "The wrath of MOM" running our country.

He does one thing, and he does it very well.
WAR

What is good for? Absolutely nothin
SAY IT AGAIN

I want the smart guy..
tired of a selfish,smarmy dummy at the helm..we are a sinking ship..S..O..S..
and this 'captain' still has several months left to run 'er aground,mate..
be afraid..be very afraid..and don your life jackets..

Yes he could still attack IRAN