Jack’s Winning Words 7/10/19

“To be a great leader…one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action.  An eagle was never hatched from a goose’s egg.”  (James Thomas)  If anyone ever looked like a goose, hatched from an eagle’s egg, it was Honest Abe.  He even made fun of his looks..  But, how he could lead; he was a great thinker, too.  His was “pedestrian thinking,” to be sure.  Common sense is often the best sense.  When it comes to leadership, who’s your real eagle?   ;-)  Jack 

FROM HONEST JOHN:  Lincoln didn’t rely on “common sense.”    That is a kind of myth.   He knew Much of Shakespeare by heart.   BTW...ever try to define common sense.    Often, the def. given is a way of saying “I an not educated in that area and here is what I substitute for the knowledge afforded in that area.===JACK:  Yes, common sense is non-sense.  Ours is not necessarily that of another.  It's just we thing is (or should be) a truism.  Perhaps Lincoln has the perception of being a common sense person because of so many people agreeing with his statements.===HJ:  Apt reply of a Relativist.   Relativists are left with the position that no definition is possible for an y term.    We began debates with the "definition of terms."    Therefore, relativists are excluded from debate.   That must be Donald Trump's position since he in essence refuses to debate anything and, instead,, more or less ignores all negative information.   A handy but socially divisive way to go.===JACK:  I've been called a relativist before and will accept it.  All I try to do is to explain situations to people in a way that they can understand.

FROM OUTHOUSE JUDY:  Our idea of a great leader is one who leads with following the laws, is honest, has morals and does what he says he will do.

FROM ME IS NEWPORT BEACH:  Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagan, FDR and Arnold Palmer. ===JACK:  I never got past the idea of Reagan as a movie star (it's  my age).  ...and certainly every army needs a general, so Arnie is fit for that....great golfer, but too many ciggies.

FROM ST PAUL IN ST PAUL:  i read the other day that James Buchanan,  Lincoln's  predecessor,  was secretly shipping weapons from the North to the South during the last two years of his presidency all in anticipation of a civil war.===JACK:  I'm going to check that out.