Doers versus talkers: results are what counts. Actions and results are much more powerful than words in the real world. I continue to be amazed when Americans give more credence to a glib-talking politician than a results-oriented businessman. I can recall listening to individuals I worked for and with, in the corporate world, who talked a great game, but who could not accomplish anything meaningful and worthwhile. They were all style and no substance
Perspective
I remember Mr. Obama when he was president being hailed as the savior of the world when he would make speeches. Many in his viewing audience would be enthralled with his articulateness, including such hard-to-please interlocutors as Mr. Chris Matthews, the one-time MSNBC host of HardBall. And, remember this, most of the time, Mr. Obama was reading from a teleprompter. Moreover, if you were to read the text of the speech, after the fact, the content was, in the main, mostly political platitudes, sprinkled with doses of bloviation.
I suspect the reaction of his audiences is one of the critical failings of human nature. When we listen to someone who seems articulate, we grant them a higher level of believability and expertise.
A Simple Comparison Of President Trump And Mr. Biden
I have done my homework on these two gentlemen, Messrs. Trump and Biden. President Trump is a doer, is very results-oriented, and has an extreme bias for action. He may not be well-spoken, and he sometimes is crude and narcissistic (he says ‘I’ way too much and ‘we’ not enough), but he does keep his promises, and he gets things done.
I have written in other posts that if Paul Ryan (then Speaker of the House) and the House had been proactive instead of an albatross around the President’s neck, there is no telling what could have been accomplished in the President’s first term. President Trump’s results are easy to list and measure, such as the growth in GDP, the reduction of unemployment, and the decrease in taxes, to name three of the most important to all Americans.
As for Mr. Biden, he was a senator for 36 years and vice president in the Obama Administration for eight years. I would submit that even the most diligent researcher would be hard-pressed to find any legislative or political accomplishments worth noting. Moreover, he is prone to embellishing his academic and political record and has been caught at it.
He campaigned for president twice, once in 1988 and the second time in 2008. He dropped out the first time because he plagiarized parts of a speech previously given by Neil Kinnock, a British politician, and did not give Mr. Kinnock credit. In 2008, he dropped out of the race after finishing fifth in the Iowa caucus.
My Conclusion
I prefer a doer to a talker. As we used to say in Philadelphia when I was growing up, “Talk is cheap!”
Politicians, especially life-long ones, are talkers, not doers. President Trump is a doer, and Mr. Biden is a talker. America needs doers and as many as possible in government. Let’s hope the doers step up to the plate after President Trump leaves office in January 2024.
Links
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