Sunday, November 13, 2005
 Here's the question of the week: "does your personal life make you a better leader?" Consider this, Mayor Gulliani had an ugly public divorce, his wife called him a slob in the press; but he was the best man running things during 9/11. Never home, focused on the job, and not pussy whipped makes a damn good CEO. How about a senate bill to give democrats "closed sessions" during every Tuesday's panty party?
If history is any indication, its clear that our best heroes are not running the kids to soccer practice.
President Clinton challenged critics this week who said he would be a great president were it not for his failed impeachment -- Can we fault him if he played with other women? -- Hilary is definitely not shopping at Victoria Secrets!
"It was an egregious abuse of the Constitution and law and history of our country," Clinton said. "Now if you want to hold it against me that I did something wrong, that's a fair deal," Clinton said. "If you do that, then you have a whole lot of other questions, which is how many other presidents do you have to downgrade and what are you going to do with all those Republican congressmen, you know, that had problems?"
His remarks were cheered loudly by the audience. How about a standing ovation? I mean talk about time management; he balanced the budget, talked to world leaders all while getting oral in the oval office.
The American people as a body politic is getting side tracked by silly things like moral values. Fuck moral values!
Great leaders are thinkers and why should we care if they fancy a pink panty party in their personal life? I say give them anything they need that clears their heads to think about the important issues.
Over in New Jersey, this past weeks governor's race, Senator Jon Corzine won against opponent Douglas Forrester, but it got real personal in those last few days. In a last-minute barrage of attack ads we saw Mr. Corzine's ex-wife was quoted as declaring that unlike Mr. Forrester, "Jon did let his family down, and he'll probably let New Jersey down, too." -- Who cares if Corzines ex wife was let down? -- can the man bring us a stronger city is the key question?
Voters need to focus on the business that effects people lives, not their private lives. All of our best leaders were not known as experts in the "domestic arena." Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson to name a few -- clearly, all great leaders, right -- well, each of them had a skeleton buried in a closet. They didn't betray the voters the way they betrayed their spouses and that's what's good leadership is all about. You put the needs of the many in front of a silly marriage -- (all while getting a side salad).
Trust this, any man that is great at his personal relationship -- you know, the guy coaching little league baseball and bringing his wife flowers every Friday night -- is not at all capable of making this a better country.
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