Presidential principles

I hear many negatives about people with good morals who have the best interest for our country. My motto: If you can’t say something good about someone, keep your mouth shut. Good leadership is about choosing people to serve who have the expertise to guide us with good sense, good morals and honor.

We need leaders who are open with congress, willing to take advice, criticism, and operate within the law.

If you follow these principles, many of us could be president. Gov. John Anderson replied to me when I asked him why he didn’t run for higher office: “Paul, you might be as honest when you go to Washington, D.C., but, to get things done, you won’t be honest when you return.” Great words from an honest man. A sad commentary, indeed.

Paul W. Meyn
Overland Park

Comments

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

Operating within the law and doing what is right and moral, two entirely differnt things. Stealing perfectly acceptable so long as it is done the way lawyers do ti and allow it to be done, after all they come up with the millions of laws we have on the books. I love the term "responsibility for their actions", especially since it only applies to some.
Like Peter G. peterson said, "If Congress actually had to operate under the same laws as they expect everyone and ervy other business to, they would be out of business".
He was speaking about Sarbanese-Oxley.

[Engineer]

Pub 17
You must be joking. You know very well people come in all shapes and sizes in all parties. So far as I know, there are few politicians of any stripe who are willing to take responsibility; credit, you bet, but nothing else.

[Pub 17]

Like all those other silly Dems who've trashed the economy over the last hundred years...save it for people who can't read, can't think, whose eyes glaze over in Econ class, who believe in the primacy of inherited wealth over personal achievement, and whose number one principle is to avoid responsibility for their actions at all costs--in other words, Republicans.

[Engineer]

Pub 17
I don't have a finish for that joke, but I do have a finish for "The Modern Legend Of The Pied Piper aka B. Obama". And then the Piper led them all off into the state of bankruptcy.

[Pub 17]

I'll say again: someone's missing the construction of a great,original joke.

"Sarah Palin, Ted Nugent, and Dick Cheney go on a hunting trip..."

[Engineer]

Pup 17
Are you a hunter? I've been taling to Dick and......

[Pub 17]

Support hose and personal assistants.

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

How the hell did Dick Cheney and Nancy Pelosi get in their positions then?

[Pub 17]

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http://www.goldwatermiller08.com/

[solomon]

solomon in o8?...why not?