Hillary Loves Power More Than Herself
I don’t know what it is but the more I see of Hillary the less I trust her. I am not alone. 53 percent of the Americans share my opinion says a recent Gallup poll. And in Pennsylvania, a Pew research survey done in early April found that of 1,000 respondents 29 percent said they had a very negative opinion of Sen. Clinton, compared to 15 % for Sen. Obama and 12% for Sen. McCain. Hillary Clinton still won the Pennsylvania primary, but the question about her trustworthiness is troubling.
“The Americans deserve a President that won’t quit”, Clinton said yesterday in her victory speech, pointing out that she definetly is not a quitter. We know that. Just look at her marriage. She stood by her man even though he publicly humiliated her by having an affair with an intern and got impeach for it. I don’t understand her choice. She is an accomplished lawyer fully capable of supporting herself, why didn’t she just walk out on the bastard? She could have started over, building a political career that truly would have been hers. As a divcorcee she might not have been a New York Senator just yet, but she could readily have served us Americans in another position. I know I would have respected her for it, and I would have trusted her. Now her “not quitting” seems as single minded as does President Bush’s vision on Iraq.
That it is not a good sign. For as Joseph Ny, Professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, points out, context intelligence is the key to leadership. But a leader must also have soft power skills – emotional intelligence, ability to create a vision and communications skills -- as well as hard power skills, that is, organization- and Machiavellian political skills. I don’t think anyone doubts Hillary Clintons Machiavellian skills, but what about her ability to create a vision? In this information age, Dr. Ny says, you can’t really use power of command, you have to buy people into a vision, and it has to be a realistic one. And here Hillary Clinton worries me. Her “fighter” attitude might very well make her inflexible and steer her away from context, easily transforming an illusion into a delusion.
