Say what you want about Mike Dukakis, he knew how to command in a storm

[SpiralHawk]

the Duke hunkered down at the State House on Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, and calmly sized up the damage and efficiently dispatched resources to guide the Bay State through one hell of Great Blizzard in 1978.

The snow paralyzed the State -- but he very visibly took command, and calmly guided everyone over the TV, and in the command rooms of the Commonwealth. Thanks Mike, you did a brilliant job with that storm.

The nation could use your gifts of command with wisdom today, as we watch our relatives struggle in LA, without benefit of visible or competent command at the national level. George W. Bush continues his 5-week vacation. The storm rages on.


Wikipedia link to Michael Dukakis, former Governor of Massachusetts and Democratic candidate for President. Has links to stories on the blizzared of '78.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dukakis

[MADem]

1. I liked Mike, still like him, in fact

Helluva fellah!!!

[SpiralHawk]

2. He knew what he was doing, and he did it without fuss or fanfare

He took command in an emergency and dealt with it. Unlike the present vacationer-in-chief in Crawford, Texas

[SpiralHawk]

4. The glaring absence and failure of leadership in this storm,

which has devastated our neighbors and their communities in Missisippi and Louisiana, is painful to behold.

Bush is still hiding.

The nation needs leadership desperately now, and Bush is AWOL. Again.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. I wish I could understand why this nation became so anti-education.

[question everything]

5. Same reason that in the Middle Ages the church was against teaching

you can control the masses better when the masses are a collection of "dittoheads" and proud of it. You can also control the leaders that you put at the head of the ticket - Reagan, Bush II - when they do not ask any questions, just do and say what they are told.

And then you change the style of communication to "me Tarzan, you Jane" and you have a handful of educated, knowledgeable shadow government that runs a ship of fools and no one even knows that some questions need to be asked. And when you have intelligent, eloquent leaders like Gore and Kerry, they are met with a collective "huh?"