Who Would Have Thought?

[The Reaper]

Who would have thought, and yet, many are thinking it.
By Lou Pritchett, Procter & Gamble

A LETTER FROM A PROCTER AND GAMBLE EXECUTIVE TO PRESIDENT OBAMA*:

THE LAST SENTENCE IS THE MOST CHILLING

Lou Pritchett is one of corporate America's true living legends- an acclaimed author, dynamic teacher and one of the world's highest rated speakers. Successful corporate executives everywhere recognize him as the foremost leader in change management. Lou changed the way America does business by creating an audacious concept that came to be known as "partnering." Pritchett rose from soap salesman to Vice President of Sales and Customer Development for Procter and Gamble and over the course of 36 years, made corporate history.

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.

You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.

You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.

You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.

You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don't understand it at its core.

You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others.

You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail..

You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame
America' crowd and deliver this message abroad.

You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.

You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.

You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly
capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.

You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations.

You scare me because your own political party shrinks from
challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.

You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even
consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.

You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both
omnipotent and omniscient.

You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on
everything you do.

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaugh's, Hannitys, O'Reillys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.

You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

Lou Pritchett

This letter was sent to the NY Times but they never
acknowledged it. Big surprise. Since it hit the internet,
however, it has had over 500,000 hits. Keep it going. All
that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing...

It's happening right now.*

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/youscareme.asp

[Penn]

This is going out to everyone on my email list:http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/youscareme.asp

[afchic]

An interesting tidbit in the news this morning.

June 8, 2010
'Today' interview: Obama shows press contempt
A year ago, I wrote about President Obama being thin-skinned about criticism from the media and having a not so barely suppressed contempt for the press.

And I caught holy heck from some readers and far too many of my colleagues who were still deep in a post-election swoon with this man they kept referring to as so "elegant and cool." Read that column titled "Time for Press to quit being used by Obama" here. It is the first of several columns and posts that I wrote on that theme.


Well, the president took thin skinned to a new level Tuesday morning in his interview with Matt Lauer on NBC's "Today" show. I do not know what the president and his advisers were trying to accomplish with this conversation that took place in Michigan before Obama spoke to a high school graduation in Kalamazoo. But I have never seen Obama look and sound more petty, petulant and tinny.

Obama's big problem isn't that he can't act decisively, can't emote on cue for the cameras, trusts experts too much or that he defers excessively to CEOs. His problem -- and it is starting to look like a genuine fatal flaw -- is that he can't take criticism, particularly from the press, which he seems to have an unnatural and Nixon-like hostility toward. And this interview with Lauer showed that all too clearly.


Confession time: When I first heard of the "Today" interview Monday, I thought, "Sure where else would a slumping Obama go when he needs some softballs that he can hit out of the park and try to get his stroke back except "Today," the place that offers safe harbor to the likes of reality TV's Kate Gosselin.

But I am glad I held off on writing until I saw the full interview this morning, because I was pre-judging and would have been wrong on that count. Lauer was prepared, focused and gave the President very little room to play his usual TV interview games. Lauer did a very good interview, and good for Lauer and "Today" and for all of us who want the best information we can get about the man running the country in these tumultuous times.

Lauer asked Obama directly about the comparisons of the president's performance in the Gulf with that of George W. Bush during Katrina.

That's when the "cool and elegant" Obama started getting riled and announced, "This is not theater... I don't always have time to perform for the benefit of the cable shows."

Really? This is the guy who has been on every cable channel in America it seems -- cooking steaks with Bobby Flay, shooting hoops and filling out NCAA brackets with any ESPN or CBS Sports analyst who shows up at the White House with a basketball, trading barbs with comedians and talk show hosts at the drop of a ht.

For most of his first year in office, it seemed as if Obama was always on TV in safe settings -- and no one played the TV-as-theater game better since John F. Kennedy.

But not any more. The TV gods have abandoned Obama, and now, the more he tries to use TV to get on top of the Gulf disaster the more his contempt for the men and women who bring us news via that medium is exposed.

Here's Obama saying he was on top of the spill from day one and in the Gulf before the news media -- two statements that while they open to some interpretation are quite a stretch.

"I was down there a month ago, before most of these talking heads were even paying attention to the gulf," he told Lauer. "A month ago I was meeting with fishermen down there, standing in the rain talking about what a potential crisis this could be. And I don't sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar; we talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick."

Love the elegance of that last phrase.

And when Obama tried to replay his pre-tested soundbite answer that he wasn't elected to "vent," but rather to "solve problems," Lauer expertly led him down the BP path with quotes from BP CEO Tony Hayward.


"But to solve the problem you need to have a reliable partner," Lauer began. "Let me read you some of things that Mr. Hayward has said over the course of this disaster. He said, 'The Gulf of Mexico is a big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water value;' - somewhat obvious – 'the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to be very very modest.' And then he said, 'no one wants to end more than I do, I want my life back, family members of those 11 people who died on the rig, and people's whose lives are going to be changed for years want their lives back too.' He doesn't work for you but if he did, would you want him out?


"He wouldn't be working for me after any of those statements," Obama said.

And yet, Obama is still working with Hayward, and for several weeks, was deferring excessively while we now know BP kept crucial facts about the spill from Americans.

It was the so-called talking heads like NBC's Brian Williams, Mr. President, who helped the America people first get a sense of what a catastrophe this was -- even as your administration helped BP keep cameras away from the accident, while allowing Hayward and his minions to egregiously low ball the amount of oil gushing into the Gulf. It was your administration, Mr. President, that allowed, if not helped, Hayward and BP lie to us about the horrible thing that was happening to our country.
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/zontv/2010/06/president_obama_today_matt_lau.html

[Paslode]

Nice to see it ain't just the little people making observations and asking question anymore.

[nmap]

In Mr. Pritchett's letter, this sentence caught my eye:

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

Recall that on May 20th of this year, the SEIU surrounded the home of a Bank of America executive and proceeded to terrorize a frightened child. Pictures available HERE (http://biggovernment.com/libertychick/2010/05/20/seiu-storms-private-residence-terrorizes-teenage-son-of-bank-of-america-exec/)

And on June 7th, we have the POTUS quoted ( LINK (http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/obama-talks-tough-on-gulf-oil-spill-in-interview-with-matt-lauer/19507374) ): President Barack Obama says his talks with Gulf fishermen and oil spill experts are not an academic exercise. They're "so I know whose ass to kick."

I think Mr. Pritchett's statement is overly optimistic. I do not think it will take 8 years before fear begins to assert itself.

By the way - if the economy falters, it might constitute a crisis.

Rahm Emanuel: You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. LINK: 8 second video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yeA_kHHLow)

[dr. mabuse]

*

[Five-O]

He is a child. :mad:


He is the least Presidential man to ever hold the office.

[18DWife]

He is the least Presidential man to ever hold the office.

ITA

And all talk ..faker than Nancy Pelosi's face :cool:
I would seriously pay money to see him ATTEMPT To kick anyone's ass ....