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Isn't it a pain in the backside when other people actually read your links? If you had yourself, you'd see the part about how Obama has the briefing book delivered to his residence early each morning, and ....
“Unlike your former boss, he (Obama) has it delivered to his residence in the morning and not briefed to him.”
"Dana Milbank, who writes that Bush was briefed every day by his intelligence advisers because he “decided he would prefer to read less.”)
Sounds like a more efficient use of time to me. I don't know too many executives who waste time sitting through a daily meeting when they can simply read a detailed report for updates and then call the staff with questions or call a meeting if they have further questions. I thought the big advantage that Romney had was that he has extensive business experience? This type of behavior is something right out of a MBA playbook--working smart.
And we are to believe Dana Milbank's reasoning?
Obama doesn't bother to attend them and intelligence sources say that's very important so that he can ask questions and get follow-up answers.
Does THAT not make sense to you that there's MORE to a face-to-face meeting than a quick summary?
Just close all our bases and embassies in the region and pull out. Stop all aid to the region as well. Let those savages do as they will to each other but we have no business being there and certainly shouldn't send more of our people over.
Very wise. If the Middle East is a big trouble spot the best thing we can do is to pull out the very people who are there to represent our interests and keep us informed on what's happening there.
what is crazy is how obvious it is that this has become part of a wider attempt to drawing us into another Mid-East war. It is tragic what happened, but it would be insanely stupid to be drawn into another round of ME adventurism in Iran, Libya, or Egypt.
Nice way to make a point. Maybe you should run for office!
There's a group of 10 friends standing in the street and 7 of them aren't violent, however 3 are. Would you walk through that crowd because you knew 7 of them wouldn't attack you?
99% of all terrorism is from Muslims. Homegrown terrorism (Fort Hood, NY Bombing attempt..etc) is up over 300%. The religion of peace, has never been peaceful regardless of how many of them want it. They can't even make peace with themselves. Sunni and Shia will kill each other over minor differences of belief. Can you grasp that?
I agree it's ridiculous, but basically it is the same in Northern Ireland. Who outside Christianity really knows or cares about the differences between protestants and catholics?
Religions suck, some more than others, but they all do... I wish I had a weapon to extinguish religions from the face of the earth, I would turn from pacifist to warrior today
So you're saying that you don't think Obama was in informal briefings and meetings all day yesterday with the state department, etc.? That's laughable. Why would you need a formal meeting if you'd lived and breathed something the day before. I don't know too many successful executives who follow a rigid management style like that, because it doesn't work, especially in a crisis. So you have your briefing in the morning and then you know what hits the fan at 2 pm--you don't think he meets and talks with his advisers then? Give me a break. You're criticizing him for actually reading his daily briefings, and being intelligent enough that he can sort out the questions vs. having them spoon fed to him every morning.
FYI--if my staff did such a poor job of preparing a report that I had to have them present to spoon feed me questions, I think I'd be firing some staff.
what is crazy is how obvious it is that this has become part of a wider attempt to drawing us into another Mid-East war. It is tragic what happened, but it would be insanely stupid to be drawn into another round of ME adventurism in Iran, Libya, or Egypt.
Drawn into Egypt and Libya? Those were two of Obama's shining foreign policy accomplishments........well until the muslim brudderhood decided to toss him under the bus.
Isn't it a pain in the backside when other people actually read your links? If you had yourself, you'd see the part about how Obama has the briefing book delivered to his residence early each morning, and ....
“Unlike your former boss, he (Obama) has it delivered to his residence in the morning and not briefed to him.”
"Dana Milbank, who writes that Bush was briefed every day by his intelligence advisers because he “decided he would prefer to read less.”)
Sounds like a more efficient use of time to me. I don't know too many executives who waste time sitting through a daily meeting when they can simply read a detailed report for updates and then call the staff with questions or call a meeting if they have further questions. I thought the big advantage that Romney had was that he has extensive business experience? This type of behavior is something right out of a MBA playbook--working smart.
When one can read beyond the level of "My Pet Goat," one can read the primary data for himself rather than having someone else's interpretation of what the data said. Only then can someone partake in meaningful discussion of plans of actions.
I agree it's ridiculous, but basically it is the same in Northern Ireland. Who outside Christianity really knows or cares about the differences between protestants and catholics?
Religions suck, some more than others, but they all do... I wish I had a weapon to extinguish religions from the face of the earth, I would turn from pacifist to warrior today
And I'll repeat myself, because I edited my post. If my staff did such a god awful job in preparing my briefing that they had to come talk to me to explain what questions I might have, or the ramifications of different actions, heads would be rolling--all of that should be part of the written briefing.. There's no excuse for that, unless you're too slow to understand all the consequences of what the actions spelled out in a briefing would mean. Why would you take time out of your day, every day, to meet with people to summarize what you should have read in detail during the morning? Why would you meet to go over something that you spent the entire day on the day before, if the briefing says there's been no change in teh situation since then? Bush met with his staff every day because he didn't want to read the reports, and it sounds like he would have had a hard time understanding it or asking the right questions if he did. I don't think our current president has that problem.
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