So, there's a new sheriff in town, and his name is Barack Obama… Lots of posts related to talent to follow on BO in the next four years, I'm sure…
Meanwhile, back at the McCain camp, the finger pointing started heating up the day after the election as operatives in the McCain camp started leaking allegations that Sarah Palin is….well, difficult, demanding and less than knowledgable…
From Fox News (email subscribers click through for video):
My in-laws were in town during election week, and that meant Fox News was on pretty much all day – and of course, they were shocked that Fox News would run this report. I had a different take…
Where the heck is John McCain when his own campaign flunkies started pointing fingers and trying to hack someone's reputation so they could make themselves free of accountability?
Regardless of how you feel about Palin (I don't know what she knows about Africa or NAFTA), there's a pretty simple law of leadership on display here. If you bring someone into the fold and it doesn't go well, don't complain. Don't allow others to leak, gossip and point the finger. Treat the person on the team with respect and a basic level of dignity, and demand that everyone else does as well. Don't sit on the sidelines why your own team rips the person you brought in.
It's not the media. It's your own team, reporting it to the news outlet that's widely reported to be most friendly to your cause.
You're the leader. You recruited them, defend them and lock it down. You owe them that much.
KD:
I could not agree with you more! He was the ‘maverick” that made Palin his choice for VP. It begs the question as to how much candidate “vetting” really took place. But that’s not the point. McCain stood by as his “partner in crime” was thrown under the bus and did little (I’m sorry – nothing) to defend her position. Yeah – the spiral had already started and in many ways people want to think it was Palin that started the downward spiral. In the end it doesn’t matter now. What does matter is that when she needed a life-jacket the “maverick” was probably thinking about how life was going to be (post the election) in Sedona. He seemed to forget about Palin – the choice he made with so much conviction just 90 days ago.
excellent perspective. I agree 100% that leadership requires actual ethics and good manners.
What is it about In-laws and Fox news? My neighbor has the same story (mine are sadly gone). I guess in-laws are the Fox news demographic.
Yep, I’d have to give this post an A. Great points.
Now then: I rarely venture my politics in print, but I question Mr. McCain’s wisdom in selecting Mrs. Palin to begin with. It seems like Mrs. Palin was brought in to help win the election, obviously, but after that, … then what? Any voter who could see just over the hill understood that while bright, Sarah Palin was completely unprepared to be the VP of our country.
I’m not being disrespectful to Mrs. Palin. We are a lot alike, and I voted for McCain. But in picking Sarah Palin as his running mate, Mr. McCain was basically throwing a Hail Mary pass — and America knew it.