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Everyone is afraid to tell the boss bad news. It is one of the toughest jobs as "boss" to get through to your reports that they need to tell you bad news before you get blindsided in a meeting or the paper or something.
Everyone is afraid to tell the boss bad news. It is one of the toughest jobs as "boss" to get through to your reports that they need to tell you bad news before you get blindsided in a meeting or the paper or something.
Really? And you are the type I would not hire. I would want my staff to tell me what is wrong then we could brainstorm for a way to fix it and get it fixed. Your president was more interested in going after republicans that were telling him it was not ready, more interested in politics than the American people.
Everyone is afraid to tell the boss bad news. It is one of the toughest jobs as "boss" to get through to your reports that they need to tell you bad news before you get blindsided in a meeting or the paper or something.
A good boss would fire those who kept him in the dark.
The website debacle is going on 4 weeks and there's no end in sight. And when it IS up and running there's the debacle of Obamacare itself, and that will be ongoing.
During WWII generals and Hitler sat around a table trying to plot their next move. They delivered bad news and Hitler promptly pulled out his gun and shot him in the head. No one told Hitler bad news after that.
By the same token it sounds like Obama has surrounded himself with a bunch of yes men and women who are afraid to tell the One anything negative.
The Presidential 'bubble' has existed forever. Every President complains about it, too.
All Presidents have a very tight schedule every day, so their senior advisers always make their time with the President as short as possible. A lot of stuff always gets missed or skipped over, and the majority of it isn't the President's proper concern anyway.
Bush II in particular complained bitterly about the bubble during his second term. Rightly so- he was getting blamed all the time for things he knew nothing about until it was too late. There are always at least 2 layers of officials between the President and all his directors and department secretaries, and more with matters of the Pentagon. Only the CIA and FBI have fast direct access to Presidents.
Blaming the President for everything is easy to do on all sides of every disturbance, peccadillo, or whatever. But very few Presidents are so thin-skinned their staff is unwilling to tell him the truth. Nixon was the touchiest of them all, but even his staff gave him bad news when it was required.
An intelligent post. Great role model for everyone else on here. Good job!
IRS? Huh? I'm pretty sure everyone in the country knows about the IRS and I'm pretty sure he knows about Obamacare. Sorry, but one person, no matter what party he/she is from, won't know everything about every single department in the country. POTUS, again, from any party, is getting a high level view of everything with a particular focus on things like national security. The same would apply to Bush. They were going F&F type of things back in his reign and well and I doubt that he knew anything about it either.
Nice deflection. It's not about the "IRS", but about the IRS specifically targeting conservative groups in the run up to the 2012 election. It's been tied to the office of one of only two political appointees at the IRS, the chief counsel.
Nice deflection. It's not about the "IRS", but about the IRS specifically targeting conservative groups in the run up to the 2012 election. It's been tied to the office of one of only two political appointees at the IRS, the chief counsel.
The website debacle is going on 4 weeks and there's no end in sight. And when it IS up and running there's the debacle of Obamacare itself, and that will be ongoing.
Dems are going to learn about Karma.
The website is not that bad anymore. Reports today said 90% of people trying to register are doing so successfully. Three weeks ago it was closer to 0%.
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