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 ...
Let me count the ways.........
Nice try. But the real reason people hate her is because she is evil and mad and vile and disgusting and generally unlikable.
"The role of a leader isn’t to make good decisions, or to understand things"
Ok.
I can think of four People who might have a reason to dislike Hillary.
Unfortunately, they are unavailable for comment.
It really is stupid, isn’t it?
Nobody expected a “magical” leader. We DO want competence, honesty, a belief in and desire to uphold the Constitution, reverence for rule of law, zero tolerance for corruption, and a willingness to defend our country. Many of our leaders have had those qualities.
But her Royal Thighness has NONE of those qualities. Not a one!
**** “I’m at a loss for why anyone would like that foul creature” ****
Bump and Dittos
You would need a years worth of issues to answer that question in depth.
Shrillarity and Bill Clinton compete with each other, each striving to be the most dishonest and dishonorable politician in US history.
JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH!
What a stupid article, even from NewsWEAK.
What’s to like about the most corrupt and evil person to ever run for POTUS?
Well,the Trump Tower that I see at Columbus Circle in Manhattan (at the southwest corner of Central Park) isn't "magical" but it's a whole lot more impressive than the photos we see of Benghazi.And let's not forget the dead Ambassador as well.
CattleGate
TravelGate
Vince Foster
Ron Brown & fellow passengers & crew
Benghazi
Clinton Family Foundation
Clinton Global Initiative
and the list goes on....
I don’t like a candidate that thinks they should be president because it is “their turn”.
Democrat candidates: excuses
Republican candidates: held to highest standards
Because she’s a lying, cheating, slandering self-centered socialist with a lust for power and - yes - money.
Because she is an opportunistic America-hater who is selling this country out to muzzards in order to gain the power over people she has always wanted.
Hillary has already “defined herself” with a lifetime of corruption for all to see.
Because she is evil. With a dark heart.
The corporate media started this when they pasted the ‘bumbler’ label on Ford and the ‘idiot’ label on Ford (although you can trace it all the way back to the ‘crook’ label they pasted on Nixon in 1952.)
Newsweek and their fellow travelers in the media made the rules of the game, and now they are whining because we are using their rules against them in the game they started.
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