02-08-2006, 11:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-08-2006, 11:37 PM by Occhidiangela.)
GenericKen,Feb 8 2006, 05:00 PM Wrote:To a degree, I take issue witht he agism in that sentiment (having known a lot of old people a lot more on top of things than all their juniors), but I do agree that complacency in the government is a growing problem in the US.Not just in the US, and I think the problem is tunnel vision and group think. Complacent people don't get into office.
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As to unelected folk, Rummy may be old, for example, but he has as sharp a policy mind as is available. Disagree with him (as I do) on any number of topics, but let's not assert that being put out to pasture for all people past XX years is best use of brain power available.
Cheney is, IMO, past his sell by date, but not due to lack of wit. It is due to his world view having calcified a decade ago. It is a risk I take, as I age, the risk of my mind locking in too firmly in certain thinking patterns.
Occhi
PS: WJ Clinton and GW Bush were both much younger than Reagan while in the White House, and neither can hold his jock as president.
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete