A Different Kind of Crisis Management Needed In US

[Demeter]

We have been enduring the GOP NeoCon version of Crisis Management thses several years, which consists of both manufacturing crises for political scoring and creating crises through fraud, abuse and neglect, intentional or not. These crises span the gamut from international peace and prosperity to individual health care. We have had enough of this kind of Crisis Management!

We need desperately leaders who can recognise a crisis,admit publicly to it, and fix it appropriately, regardless of the short-term political fallout. This takes a special kind of leader: what business people call a Turnaround Specialist.


We are fortunate that there appears to be some potential leaders in our political scene today. Howard Dean, Russ Feingold, and others you can point to, who have taken those healthy first steps to recovering the City on the Hill and all it promised.

Practically anybody can look good when things are running well and the status quo deserves to be maintained (Dubya is not one of those--everything he touches turns to shit). If we were in a good and stable position, Hillary Clinton would make a good leader. But she has never demonstrated the slightest inclination to face facts and deal with them. She's not alone in this personal failing, by any means, just the most conspicuous. So let's go for a Turnaround S