Posted on 08/28/2016 1:44:42 PM PDT by drewh
Society has created the unrealistic idea that a president should be a “magical leader” who never makes mistakes. In practice, no such magical leaders exist, but the expectation that presidents should be magical means that we turn against potential leaders when we discover that they, like all people before them, aren’t magical.
Her cautious approach to the media allows opponents to define her by caricature, While Hillary’s cautious approach may have avoided “gaffes,” it has also made it hard for her to define herself and allowed her opponents to define her by caricature.
No magical leaders actually exist. They just don’t. Every time you get close to someone presented as magical, you discover that they are flawed like everyone else. They make mistakes. They have superficial understandings of important issues. They give speeches written by other people.
Real progress is made by organizations, not magical leaders. The role of a leader isn’t to make good decisions, or to understand things, but to oversee the creation of an organization that can make good decisions and understand things. Good leaders hire the best people, make sure they have a consistent vision, delegate each problem to the person best able to solve it and make sure that decisions being made are consident with each other.
We expect presidential candidates to be magical leaders, and turn against them when we realize they aren’t. This is the reason why there is so much anger about things like Benghazi and wrong stances Hillary took in the past. It’s because it reveals that Hillary isn’t a magical leader, just like nobody is a magical leader. Donald Trump has never held a government position before, and so we can still imagine that maybe he might be magical.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Why doesn’t Newsweak acknowledge the existence of the Clinton Family Crime Foundation?
Their frustration and sadness is almost palpable.
Well, Liar and thief does it for me.
Leave it to Newsweek ..... unbelievable: “Why Do People Hate Hillary”. Amazing.
Hillary = EVIL
Because she’s evil to the very marrow of her bones.
Ridiculous premise at the very start.
Did "contributor" identify herself, or is she too embarrassed?
Just let me count the ways!
I'm at a loss for why anyone would like that foul creature.
Mistakes?
Mistakes?
How she mistreats the people assigned to protect her is enough, but there are so many other good reasons.
Newsweek doing it’s best to lower standards and expectations of “leaders.” They are admitting Hillary is a grotesque individual, but so is everyone else.
better question would be “why do people NOT hate her guts?”
She and the dims represent the party of evil.
Society does this, you say?
This reads like a high school newspaper article.
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