wouldn't it be nice if a reporter dares to ask directly the president these
questions?
What would be the chances of getting a truthful answer?
Or would this be a trick-question?

Seems, you don't know either and you believe or assume.
Some believe different ;-) and assume different.



On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:53:59 -0500, Brice Yokem <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>And the President's staff isn't doing the same?
>
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>You don't know that.  You do not know what they are telling him, unless
>you have access to presidential communications.  Do you?
>
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>This isn't a right/left issue, but just in general.  What President (or any
>leader) surrounds himself with
>people who disagree with him?  I don't think a person would last long on
>the staff if they
>were trying to tell him there was bad news.
>
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>You don't know that either.  Since you do not know what he is
>hearing.  I dont believe the staff is a bunch of yes-men.
>
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>For those of you who work in a large corporation - how many times did your
>higher ups want
>to hear about a problem?
>
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>My boss does not want to hear a lot of whining, neither would I.
>He does not always respond as I expect him to either, but then
>I don't have the big picture, and he does not always have the same
>scope of vision his boss has, etc.
>
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>Anyone watched some History Channel stories lately, on the shuttle
>disasters?
>Some people tried to tell their boss that they thought there was a problem.
>And they were told "I don't want to hear it - there is NO problem".
>And they even refused to have any one try to get a look to see if there was
>a problem.
>
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>Now we are talking about issues of bureacracy, and entrenched government.
>It is clear NASA can no longer do the job is was supposed to do, and
>needs to be fundamentally revised.  If you are talking about privatization,
>or free market solutions to the space race, you are playing my tune.
>
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