CNN--Clinton: "Think About this as a Hiring Decision
Senator Clinton says voters should think of a voting decision as a hiring decision. Looks like someone else has been reading my Blog. Hey, Senator, this stuff is copyrighted.
I've already been telling voters to look at this decision as they would a business, hiring and/or parenting decision. And by the way, Senator, you're fired before you can be fired.
True enough, Senator Clinton, you were never one of my favorites. But that little fib you told about sniper fire in Bosnia was a deal killer for me. You see, I can understand if someone can't recall the exact exchange as it happened in a crucial conversation or is a little off on numbers they're quoting from distant memory. That's just being human.
Understand, too, that I've know a lot of people who tell a good war story. Funny thing, though. I've always found that the people with the true war stories are the people who are often most reluctant to tell those stories. And I've had the opportunity to know more than few of them. One of them won the Medal of Honor. One was on the helicopter that was crash landed in the prison courtyard in North Vietnam at Son Tay when we tried a POW rescue. I personally believe that personal physical courage is one of the rarest of commodities in this world, much more rare (and much more special) than the ability to make a lot of money.
Especially on a night when I've had dinner with a man who fought in the Battle of the Bulge. A man who crossed the Rhine River on a barge just north of Remagen. They wouldn't let him on the bridge because he was driving a truck full of ammunition that was pulling a trailer full of fuel. And when he went across the German Luftwaffe was strafing the bridge and the barges. As we say in the biz, the pucker factor was high.
So when I find someone trivializing that quality by making up stories about it, I quickly lose respect for that person. If I lose respect for someone, then I don't want to work for them and I don't want them working for me. I sure as hell don't want them to be my President.
Here's a link to the CNN article.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/18/campaign.wrap/index.html
I've already been telling voters to look at this decision as they would a business, hiring and/or parenting decision. And by the way, Senator, you're fired before you can be fired.
True enough, Senator Clinton, you were never one of my favorites. But that little fib you told about sniper fire in Bosnia was a deal killer for me. You see, I can understand if someone can't recall the exact exchange as it happened in a crucial conversation or is a little off on numbers they're quoting from distant memory. That's just being human.
Understand, too, that I've know a lot of people who tell a good war story. Funny thing, though. I've always found that the people with the true war stories are the people who are often most reluctant to tell those stories. And I've had the opportunity to know more than few of them. One of them won the Medal of Honor. One was on the helicopter that was crash landed in the prison courtyard in North Vietnam at Son Tay when we tried a POW rescue. I personally believe that personal physical courage is one of the rarest of commodities in this world, much more rare (and much more special) than the ability to make a lot of money.
Especially on a night when I've had dinner with a man who fought in the Battle of the Bulge. A man who crossed the Rhine River on a barge just north of Remagen. They wouldn't let him on the bridge because he was driving a truck full of ammunition that was pulling a trailer full of fuel. And when he went across the German Luftwaffe was strafing the bridge and the barges. As we say in the biz, the pucker factor was high.
So when I find someone trivializing that quality by making up stories about it, I quickly lose respect for that person. If I lose respect for someone, then I don't want to work for them and I don't want them working for me. I sure as hell don't want them to be my President.
Here's a link to the CNN article.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/18/campaign.wrap/index.html
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