Word: unpopularities
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...good national leader. I believe it is the person who embodies the spirit of a nation or age, has a vision of the future and yet has a clear understanding of the past, is charismatic and can inspire. It is a person who is not afraid to make unpopular decisions and take calculated risks if the situation warrants it. KENNETH L. ZIMMERMAN Huntington Beach, Calif...
...Charles added that in order to make lives better a leader must be able to make unpopular decisions...
...move to Energy might suit Richardson?s domestic political ambitions, adds TIME correspondent Douglas Waller, but ?the counter-argument among his aides is that the Energy job requires a lot of unpopular decisions on issues such as nuclear waste.? All that Mike McCurry would offer on the matter yesterday was, ?I haven?t heard the President finalize any recommendations for that cabinet vacancy.? The big tease...
...double bonus. First, they avoid the embarrassing, public soul-searching Gephardt was pushing, Second, they may even be helped by Clinton's remarkable approval ratings. Republicans, on the other hand, face the unpleasant possibility of considering the impeachment of a popular President based on the recommendations of an unpopular Independent Counsel for charges many consider superfluous...
...economic program. But as TIME?s Bonn bureau chief Jordan Bonfante warns, the analogy has its limits: ?While Schroeder would like nothing more than to be likened to Blair, the major difference is that the Christian Democrats are not the Tories,? says Bonfante. ?Where Blair faced a decrepit and unpopular party, the CDU is still a strong and vigorous political force.? And Chancellor Kohl is no Prime Minister Major. As Schroeder's four predecessors found, it's none too easy to write off the West?s longest-serving leader...