A deficit in leadership?
Back in 1960, an inexperienced and frankly unqualified playboy senator was opposed by an extremely talkative former Minneapolis mayor, an old line wheeler and dealer of a Senate Majority Leader, and a twice-defeated political dilettante from Illinois for the Democratic presidential nomination. We might well have wondered where all the great American leaders had gone.
Except that from the viewpoint of 2009, a choice between John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Hubert H. Humphrey, and Adlai E. Stevenson doesn't look all that bad.
David Gergen thinks we have a deficit in leadership these days- that Americans just aren't producing potential presidents like we have in the past. I think he's wrong. Granted, we have a deficit in leadership in the White House right now. But I suspect that every generation wonders why the leaders who will look like giants to future generations don't measure up to those of the past.
HT: Real Clear Politics
Except that from the viewpoint of 2009, a choice between John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Hubert H. Humphrey, and Adlai E. Stevenson doesn't look all that bad.
David Gergen thinks we have a deficit in leadership these days- that Americans just aren't producing potential presidents like we have in the past. I think he's wrong. Granted, we have a deficit in leadership in the White House right now. But I suspect that every generation wonders why the leaders who will look like giants to future generations don't measure up to those of the past.
HT: Real Clear Politics
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