Leadership is not a series of costume changes

Stormy Spins in a Vortex
Maureen Dowd, NYT

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Stormy preened for the cameras at FEEBLE FEMA headquarters in Washington yesterday. On CNN, a bilious image of a hurricane spun next to his head. You could imagine the little hurricane trailing him through the rest of his presidency, like the storm cloud with a lightning bolt that always trailed Joe Btfsplk in "Li'l Abner."

He said he was jetting to San Antonio to check out "the prepositioned assets" and then riding out the storm watching "the interface" between the military and state and local authorities at Northcom in Colorado.

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But leadership is not a series of costume changes. The former Andover cheerleader has been too reliant on photo-ops, drop-bys and "Mission Accomplished" strut-bys, rather than a font of personal knowledge.

http://select.nytimes.com/2005/09/24/opinion/24dowd.html?hp&oref=login

in a long time.

And he's not even much good at that since he can't button his own shirt properly.

Oh, geez, it isn't? I thought it was. Costumes, photo-ops, grins . . . no? Letting other ppl think for him. More photos. Smiles, good ol boy stuff, no? Passing the buck. Making sure his *friends* and family were set for life with great government jobs, contracts, and present and future contacts, no?

Oh, wow. What's a "former Andover cheerleader" to do?




George Walker Bush, cheerleader, at Phillips Academy Andover, Andover, Massachusetts

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:o

they would be so easy