Comments on: Falling Apart http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2008/10/falling-apart Wed, 09 May 2012 10:28:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: enzamatic http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2008/10/falling-apart/comment-page-1#comment-45558 enzamatic Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:05:48 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/?p=6107#comment-45558 The most disconcerting part of this in my mind is that the pattern I see is one of not leading, but following. I realize that in a military situation people are trained to follow orders, one of the reasons people have found McCain's example of his experience in Cuba as an example of being a tested leader puzzling. McCain had built a reputation as a free thinker, responding per issue rather than along party lines. But it appears to me that McCain may in truth be more the type of a person who finds a person he finds intelligent and persuasive, and follows their lead. Is it possible that Mark Salter was the maverick, and McCain's muse, and only with the influence of other persuasive advisors and the weakening influence of Salter did he seem to be pulled in separate direction? This paints McCain as much more the follower than the leader, and I think the public is increasingly weary of leaders as puppets of their unelected backers. The most disconcerting part of this in my mind is that the pattern I see is one of not leading, but following. I realize that in a military situation people are trained to follow orders, one of the reasons people have found McCain’s example of his experience in Cuba as an example of being a tested leader puzzling. McCain had built a reputation as a free thinker, responding per issue rather than along party lines. But it appears to me that McCain may in truth be more the type of a person who finds a person he finds intelligent and persuasive, and follows their lead. Is it possible that Mark Salter was the maverick, and McCain’s muse, and only with the influence of other persuasive advisors and the weakening influence of Salter did he seem to be pulled in separate direction? This paints McCain as much more the follower than the leader, and I think the public is increasingly weary of leaders as puppets of their unelected backers.

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