I think you’re wrong on that one. Siedah Garrett, a colleague and musician, who worked with Quincy Jones wrote “Man In The Mirror” – because they needed additional content for the “Bad” project.
It would be great if the conversational quote between Trump and Jackson was really true – however it really was the case of a woman being asked to get the job done and the rest is herstory!

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Last November, I was extremely excited about the electoral results for the presidency. Although I live in rural central Virginia, I was unafraid of the criticism I’d take for my ardent, vocal support for BHO. I was proud of ‘my’ state voting a Democrat into office. Not that I consider myself a Democrat, rather, the term independent suits me much better. However, GWB and anyone inclined to be ‘about his business’ needed to be on the losing side of the election. I was euphoric in BHO’s victory. Now, barely 9 months later, it saddens me to say this……I am now equally euphoric with the election results both here in Va, and in NJ.
Mr. President, I say to you, “Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.” There will not be a second chance to fool me, or my brothers and sisters who believe in this country, the Constitution it was founded on, and the leanings of my hero, Thomas Jefferson. Look out, 2010. More lessons to be learned by many politicians yet to come……365 more days and counting.

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Second, it is so interesting that, under duress, a natural human reaction is to point and blame. (it’s called “anger & blame” in the grief cycle)

One of the refreshing aspects of this “new economy” is the fact that we all have to pony up and take responsibility for shaping our individual, community, and national futures.

It could be exciting

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Wish I had read this before I responded to an editorial in the Oakland Press.

WE are THEY WHO!!

Let’s quit the Blame Game!

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If the Governor made the comment about teabaggers, I am right there with her. That was a love tap compared to what the teabaggers and the anti tax and anti government crowd say about her on a daily basis. The malicious and defaming things that are said about her are inexcusable. But one can only look at the personality types coming from that amalgamation of in your face activists and it’s understandable that such derisive remarks suggest the literacy levels among our populace is a factor of our country’s decline in educational achievement.

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The financial mess we are in was carefully and deliberately crafted by the boys from the South, West and Southwest.

GW blew the surplus left to him by Clinton
GW insisted on invading Iraq at a cost that no one can estimate and we canot get out of because the Bush Doctrine so destabiized the Middle East

GW cut medicaid funding to the States
Created unfunded mandates the states had to pick up

Did nothing to stop illegal immigration
Had and encouraged an economic policy that resulted in the loss of thousands of American Jobs both Hourly and Salaried

Did the best he could to suppress the increase in the minimum wage which hadn’t been raised for more than Ten years

Consistently ran gigantic trade deficits and fed misinformation to the American Public,

Remember the Uranium that Sadamm Hussein was collecting to build WMD’s

All of the above that was supported by the Republican party.

So I wish you well as you cast your ballot.
As with All State you will be in good hands until they raise your rates.

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I enjoyed your comments about researching the purchase of vehicles on many of the criteria you highlihgted.

I did that religiously. Then I stopped. The Reason: I have been purchasing or leasing Ford Products for over 25 years. All of the news that has broken recently about the quality coming out of the Glass House in Dearborn does not surprise me at all. I could and did tell anyone I could about the quality of Ford Products. While I have no clue what the exeriences of others may have been, I can only relate to my own. Why it took auto critics over 20 years to discover what a great product Ford manufactures makes me suspicious of why they were so quite on their recognition in years past. In fact, I strongly believe that the American Auto Companies have never made a better product than they do now since the 1940’s. Even Chrysler shich is being trashed about it’s quality probably hasn’t manufacutred products this good since the 2nd World War.

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First let me begin by stating that Keenan Thompson of SNL (I hope I spelled his first name correctly) is hilarious regardless of who he portratys.

Secondly, a leader has to have clearly defined goals and a system of achieving those objectives. This is something I know you have covered either in this blog or in your book and I’m sure you have highlighted in your presentations on leadership.

Furthermore, I believe a leader can have clearly defined goals that strive to achieve a positive outcome such as those eneavors pursued by Governor Granholm or a leader can have clearly defined goals that are pursued to achieve negative outcomes for the sole purpose of promoting indvidually or collectively selfish objetives. The Governor’s opponents in the legislature who are willing to trash the common good come to mind.However clear the goals, one has to have vision that goes beyond the attainment of those objectivesbeing sought. Dwight Eishenhower had clear goals of the strategy he devised with the Alies to Invade Europe but he had to develop a a military and political vision
even with his adversaries who were part of the allied effort. No, the Governor cannot
change the difficult siutation she inherited in 8yrs, but all parties to this crisis have to develop a common and innovative vision to combat this economic war we in Michigan are fighting instead of hunkering down to pursue goals and platforms that have a facutal history of failure.

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On the other hand our world is so much more complex. I suspect that Obama’s (and Bush’s) “bailout” of the capital markets really was hugely necesssary. And given the economic “emergency,” the storm that hit the autos, I think total collapse of GM and Chrysler was probably right. It sure has helped us here in Michigan.

Not sure how we articulate a balance there.

D.

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Great conversation starter.

For me, it conjures up one of my dad’s frequent sayings “It takes you kids five seconds to break something, and it takes me three hours to fix it!” Now that I am a father myself, I see the frustration and the wisdom first hand.

Perhaps the problem is not all the fixing that needs to be done, but rather we need to spend less energy breaking stuff.

We started this country with a concept that the government should stay out of people’s business, and protect those (and that – such as the environment) that did not have the wherewithal to protect themselves. Maintain a military to defend against foreign invaders.

Let people and groups of people (businesses) lead their lives, take risks, benefit or suffer consequences of those risks. Let them self-organize to fund and hire (and fire) individuals to police their streets, manage their public facilities and teach their children.

No where in there is the concept that the government is charged with the task of creating winners and losers. It seems that every time an individual tries to do that, they break something – and we know how long it takes to fix it afterward.

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