2007-11-06 07:17:10 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
We had a slight increase of great leadership during the Reagan years, but not really since then
2007-11-06 07:20:11 · update #1
because you don't deserve any?
cease whining and become the leader you think is needed.
2007-11-06 07:20:55 · answer #1 · answered by Spock (rhp) 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Leadership is usually a quality that often appears in times of danger and stress. And this may sound redundant but it requires leaders. The american political system is not geared to producing leaders. It awards those handsome individuals with fund raising skills and the ability to pander. Pandering is usually the opposite of leadership. Why would you expect leadership from a system finely tuned to produce panderers?
Sometimes even panderers can display some courage and develop leadership, but it requires something like a war or a huge disaster. Mr. Bush looked good among the ruins in New York, but instead of leadership, he decided to get even with Saddam and invaded Iraq. This was stupidity. Stupidity is not leadership. Hurricane Katrina provided him another opportunity. Again he made speeches praising the hapless FEMA response. Thousands died and the recovery effort has turned into a bureaucratic morass. Leaders in the past, like the nobleman who took over after the Lisbon earthquake back in the 1700s used a disaster as an opportunity to turn a wrecked old city into an archectural gem. Bush took a waterlogged archectural gem and turned it into a swamp.
2007-11-06 15:30:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
because people don't like it when presidents do something unpopular even if it is for the best. I wouldn't want to be in a position where I had to go to war or have been attacked or a natural disaster. the office of president has become a damned if you do damned if you don't type thing
2007-11-06 15:25:22 · answer #3 · answered by Tip 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
because positions of leadership are fishbowls and today the media exposes every mistake you've ever made and no one's free of that
moonchild - Reagan was no leader, he was a puppet and a moron at that.
2007-11-06 15:22:27 · answer #4 · answered by amazed we've survived this l 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Reagan left office in '89, 18 years ago...
2007-11-06 15:20:58 · answer #5 · answered by alphabetsoup2 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
because America is still a hateful place and will never move forward until they allow people of different race and gender be president
2007-11-06 15:30:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like Nixon?
2007-11-06 15:21:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Reagan was a leader. Why dont you count him?
2007-11-06 15:20:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
corruption
2007-11-06 15:21:59 · answer #9 · answered by RELAX 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋