08-26-2020, 09:59 AM
(08-25-2020, 10:47 PM)thatboy Wrote:You really don't have to do that with Trump, as everyone else does it for you. I came up with the epithet back in the spring of 2009 because I was already struck by Obama's passivity. That was an insight a little ahead of the game, but it became more and more apparent over the next seven years. Barack Obama is a go-along, get-along personality.(08-24-2020, 11:03 PM)Genuine Realist Wrote: CEB veterans will remember the pejorative nickname I pinned on him after his complete and incompetent failure to seize the opportunity for real reform that the financial crisis presented. He always went with the strongest voice in the room. So he'd follow the lead of the experts, which in the case of Covid is probably a good thing.
Yeah, I've been expecting you to nickname Trump "Ugly Boy" as a sort of inverse corollary.
There was a ring of effeminacy to it, however, that I did not intend. So I have regretted it.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness - yeah, and a little looking out for the other fella, too.