Archive for September 6th, 2011

Ratcheting back the rhetoric … I mean you guys, not us.

September 6, 2011

How many lectures had the President given Republicans on civility?

Usually, it follows one of his name-calling, accusatory hissy fits..

Well, here’s one for the books.

While warming up the crowd for President Obama in Detroit, Michigan on Monday, Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa said:

“We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party.

And you know, there is only one way to beat and win that war.

The one thing about working people is we like a good fight. And you know what?

They’ve got a war, they got a war with us and there’s only going to be one winner.

President Obama, this is your army.

We are ready to march.

Let’s take these son of bitches out ….  “

No surprise, no reprimand from Obama when he started speaking.

I expect that the jobs speech on Thursday will include another call for civility…. selectively applied, of course.

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The death of the PC industry … as we know it.

September 6, 2011

Punch line: Like everything in tech, personal computers were always fated to become commodity appliances.

Excerpted from WSJ:”Steve Jobs and the Death of the Personal Computer”

Great technology industries usually die with a whimper.

But last week the curtain came down with a bang on the most famous tech industry of all — personal computers — thanks to Steve Jobs’s retirement from Apple and the less high-profile announcement that Hewlett-Packard was leaving the PC market.

Hewlett-Packard’s announcement was more surprising. H-P was until recently the world’s largest maker of personal computers.

In recent years, though, cost-cutting competitors, market saturation and alternative hardware platforms have sucked most of the profits out of PCs.

Like everything in tech, personal computers were always fated to become commodity appliances.

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Judge me based on my potential, not on my promises or my performance … huh?

September 6, 2011

Punch line: You  be an inspirational leader by simply making excuses and ducking blame.  Period..

Excerpted from Wash Times: “From ‘yes we can’ to ‘it takes time’”

Pres, Obama’s is now having difficulty finding the right inspirational tone for his stump speeches — making the transition from blameless candidate to culpable leader.

“He’s having his own teachable moment between campaigning and experienced governing.”

First, he blamed the Bush administration, then he blamed Congress, …  and now he’s saying [to voters], ‘It’s your fault for (not spending) and for expecting too much of me.’”

The last thing voters want to hear are excuses or whining.

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