Bumper stickers and leadership

Within 5 minutes, I both saw and heard two of the most patently stupid things.

The first was listening to the ABC news brief while driving away from work.  The "journalist" stated something about the Obama administration's thwarting of the car-bombing in Times Square.

Stop.  Right.  There.


If the bomber's incompetence is the only reason that dozens of people in Times Square were not maimed or killed that day, how can anyone credit the Obama administration with stopping it?  The bomber was thwarted only by himself.


Second, I had the pleasure of passing a suspected femi-Nazi, as Rush Limbaugh calls them, on the highway.  The back of her car was adorned with bumper stickers that didn't just espouse the left-wing point of view, but mocked the right-wing point-of-view.  Nothing wrong with that, mind you, she's entitled to her moronic, head-up-her-ass views, but I thought it deliciously ironic that she had bumper stickers like "Evolution is only a theory (you know, like gravity)" next to "Celebrate Diversity".

As an aside, I should say that matters of faith shouldn't be presented as gospel truth.  You know, like the Theory of Evolution. That's right, it's a theory.  It happens to fit the available data, but at its core, it's still just a hypothesis.  Gravity on the other hand, is a scientific law for a reason.  It's a Newtonian force that obeys Newtonian Laws.  Leave it to a smug liberal to screw up an analogy.

I've never understood the logic in plastering your car's rear end with your views on life.  Frankly, I think my fellow motorists don't give a shit how I feel about life, nor do I want them to know.  It's nobody's business.  In the case of the lady in the Subaru (Didn't I mention that), I suspect she thinks those stickers are telling people how enlightened she is.  That's the pattern I've noticed with libs.  They're very insecure.  It's not enough to know things.  Other people have to be shown how smart you are.  Take our current president.  He's not very skilled at hiding his emotions in political disagreements.  You can see he views people who dispute his knowledge of things as personally attacking him.  An unfortunate reality in this country is that the voters will sometimes elect the know-it-all.  The problem with know-it-alls is that they don't know it all.  They just think they do.  The best kind of leaders are the ones who will acknowledge they don't have all the answers.  They don't necessarily make this kind of acknowledgment public, but you can see the humility in whom they choose to advise them.  A good leader doesn't want a yes-man, he/she wants someone who will challenge mistaken beliefs and offer alternatives, yet still respect the chain of command when the final decision is made.  How do I know this?  Because I have more leadership experience that the sitting President of the United States of America.  Former President Bill Clinton's recent comments about Obama being the "guy who would be bringing us coffee", or whatever it was, as racist as it sounds on the surface, has an element of wisdom to it (Let me check The Weather Channel for icy condition in Hell, I just said Bill Clinton was smart!):  Mr. Obama lacks the maturity and leadership skill necessary for his office.  I understand on-the-job training is sometimes necessary, but that's why the guy in the mail room doesn't get promoted to CEO.