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Looking for Leaders in a World of Venomous Politics Couple of Years Ago, I Had Top of Utah Voices Regretfully, Cleland’S Decision Government Standard-Examiner ... Opinion Tuesday, October 3, 2006 7A Looking for leaders in a world of venomous politics couple of years ago, I had Top of Utah Voices Regretfully, Cleland’s decision government. the opportunity to meet Max not to seek elected office hasn’t A few weeks ago, 39 citizens ACleland when he came to stemmed the personal attacks. came forward to volunteer to fill Ogden to give the keynote address Cleland is still called upon to give a vacant seat on the Ogden City at a celebration to honor World Michael speeches and express opinions Council. This is several times the War II veterans. on political issues. This is enough number of candidates who would Cleland is a disabled veteran of Vaughan to gather the wrath of those who file for an open council seat during the Vietnam War. He was awarded disagree with him. a normal election. This suggests the Silver Star and Bronze Star. On Here is what Ann Coulter that the number of citizens willing April 8, 1968, Cleland was injured Commentary wrote about Cleland after the 2002 to serve in political office is far by an exploding grenade. The election: “It is simply a fact that greater than the number willing to injury cost Cleland both legs and Michael Vaughan is Weber State University’s Max Cleland was not injured by go through the demands of a public part of one arm. provost. He accepts e-mail from readers at enemy fire in Vietnam.” election. Shortly after his return to [email protected] Coulter concludes, “He saw a Concerns over venomous the United States, Cleland ran grenade on the ground and picked politics shouldn’t be taken as for the Georgia Senate where Cleland was emphatic that he it up. He could have done that at a general condemnation of the he served from 1971 to 1975. would never run for elected office Fort Dix. Luckily for Cleland’s electoral process. Candidates for Under President Jimmy Carter, again. He said the 2002 election political career … he happened to elected office should be subjected Cleland was appointed head of had extracted too great a personal do it while in Vietnam.” to public scrutiny. the Veterans Administration; he toll on him, and he didn’t want It seems a little unusual to Yet, it seems that ad hominem was the youngest administrator to to experience anything like that describe the event which resulted Former Sen. Max Cleland arguments have increasingly preside over that agency. Cleland again. in a triple amputation as lucky. crowded out cogent analysis in the was elected to the U.S. Senate in Because Cleland didn’t Cleland never misrepresented his qualifications and effective political arena. 1996. He lost his Senate seat in the provide more details, I did some injuries, and his Silver Star was leadership. The case of Cleland provides 2002 election. research. It seems that in the awarded for valorous action in Leaders are needed at every a stunning example of a potential Cleland delivered a powerful 2002 election, Cleland’s opponent, combat several days before the level of government: national, leader driven from elected office speech to Northern Utah’s World Saxby Chambliss, attacked incident with the grenade. state, county and city. We need by vitriolic politics. Caustic War II veterans. It was easy to see Cleland’s patriotism. Chambliss, I can understand why Cleland leaders skilled at listening to the politics also takes an invisible toll. why Cleland had been elected to who didn’t serve during Vietnam, lost his taste for political office. needs of their constituents. We It is unknown how many capable the U.S. Senate. It was harder to commissioned TV ads opening Lately, it seems as though politics need leaders who can articulate leaders have been deterred from understand how he lost his Senate with photographs of Osama bin and election campaigns have a vision shared by the citizens. ever considering political office. seat. Laden and Saddam Hussein, that become too dirty and too personal. We need leaders who can build What is known is that communities Indeed, several people in the were rapidly followed by images The winner may be the candidate consensus. are worse off when the political audience asked when Cleland of Cleland. The ads stated that who damages their opponent Unfortunately, individuals climate fosters and rewards would run for elected office again. Cleland didn’t have the “courage through personal attacks rather with the skill to lead seem to be malice over qualified and effective Cleland’s answer was “never.” to lead.” than focusing on meaningful in short supply at every level of leadership. Why Republicans might want to vote Democratic in November he pendulum swings. don’t-support-me, two more years It swings out. It swings of torturing political prisoners, Tback. Rick two more years of the national Always has. Always will. debt soaring toward the $10 trillion That’s why Democrats are Stewart mark, two more years of a booming starting to get excited about the economy that doesn’t profit anyone November mid-term elections. They who’s not already a millionaire, two know this particular pendulum has Commentary more years ... you get the picture. swung about as far to the extreme If the pendulum swings far right as it’s going to swing, and it’s enough in November, dear Utahns, almost time for it to start swinging sick and not for the drug companies, and brings in a Democrat-controlled back. protection of the environment — in Congress, America can have its George Bush has hijacked the short, any Republican who cares catharsis and be done with it in time Republican Party and the nation for about this country — had better for the 2008 presidential election just about as long as this country can hope that the Democrats sweep — just in time for this purged nation endure, leaving a pungent legacy of back into power this November in to elect a reasonable, responsible lies, fear-mongering and disrespect both houses of Congress. Republican leader like John McCain for the U.S. Constitution and our If that happens, it is very likely or Mitt Romney. American way of life that has him that George Bush will be impeached, But if George keeps control of on the verge of being impeached and perhaps even convicted. Congress, watch out. (not by the current Congress, but by Who knows, they may even The pendulum will swing. It the Democrat-controlled Congress impeach Dick Cheney, too. Couldn’t Democrats will hold press Remember, the pendulum always has. It always will. that could well be in office come happen to a more rankly neo- conferences suffused in self- swings. And if it doesn’t swing far enough January). conservative pair of fellows. And righteousness; Republicans will If you think the United States is in November, it certainly will swing And, for you, dear Utahns, you they should take Donald Rumsfeld respond with partisan invective. ready to repudiate George Bush now that far in 2008. of the reddest state in the Union, out the door with them when they Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh — and the Democrats are salivating How does President Hillary I suggest that the pendulum can’t go. and Michael Moore and Al Franken over the likelihood, remember sound to you? swing fast enough. Of course, the impeachment will have a field day. — just wait and see what happens if Stewart, a registered Republican Any Republican who believes process wouldn’t be consummated And the next two years in the Democrats don’t gain control of who would rather get rid of George in the traditional American values overnight. It would take several Congress will be the sorriest mess Congress in November. Bush sooner than later, will be voting of, say, fiscal responsibility, moral weeks, perhaps months, and while it you’ve ever seen. Then we’ll have two more a straight Democratic ticket in rectitude, the Bill of Rights, voting was going on, nothing else would be. And that is exactly what Utah years of Incurious George in the November. He works as a copy editor rights, states’ rights, government Government would be at a standstill Republicans should be praying for. White House, two more years of no and page designer in the Standard- by the people and not by lobbyists, while the nation was transfixed by Because the alternative would be progress in Iraq, two more years of Examiner’s Life section. E-mail him caring for our aged, caring for our the spectacle. worse. the-terrorists-will-get-you-if-you- at [email protected]. Woodward’s latest tell-all book ‘based on astonishing indiscretions’ ASHINGTON believes a president must be argot calls “full-spectrum States chasing the chimera of Where’s John Adams, for — While leading the “the calcium in the backbone” operations” — operations that “nation-building.” crying out loud?” For a Whunt for weapons of George of the nation, so the resolute go beyond killing insurgents “Where’s the leader?” Bush, president to ask that question mass destruction in Iraq in the face that he thinks he must to building schools, connecting according to Woodward, has about Iraq, that tribal stew, is summer of 2003, David Kay Will show the nation does not sewers and other civil projects exclaimed in dismay about the enough to cause one to ask it received a phone call from preclude private anguish. that keep the training wheels Iraqi government’s dithering. about the United States. “Scooter” Libby, Dick Cheney’s Washington The book’s central figure, on the Iraqi government’s “Where’s George Washington? Will’s e-mail address is chief of staff, who wanted a Post however, is not Bush, whose bicycle and keep the United Where’s Thomas Jefferson? [email protected].
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