2084 The Legacy
Who is this guy? Answer below.
Former FBI Director James Comey speaks out on
Attorney General Bill Barr. He says in his recent opinion piece in the NY
Times that Barr and others are adjusting their principles to and “failing to
resist the compromises necessary to survive…” trump. Comey’s phrase is
“accomplished people lacking inner strength.”
Comey's take on the relationship between inner
strength and accomplishment is valid and insightful. Spineless people with
decent intelligence, experience, and education still are spineless people.
They have ego problems, power hunger, and maybe
disbelief that they're worth anything despite their decent intelligence,
experience and education. They're often right about their sense of self-worth.
They’re hiding behind resumes and sheepskins.
Part of this is getting along by going along.
A friend points out that Hitler had many intelligent appointees,
too. Why?
Put yourself in the position of someone up for a
high-ranking job in the Hitler administration.
You ask yourself "what happens if I get
this job?" And you answer "Well, the Fuhrer is a blithering
idiot and dangerous. So to protect myself and my assets and my country and to
lead a better life, I'd better sign on."
Then he asks himself "what happens if I
don't get this job?" And the answer is I'm just a goose dropping along the
path, and subject to the crushing whims of this bunch of goose-steppers.
Completely expendable."
Seems like a pretty obvious choice.
Attorney General Barr is well educated, by all estimates a good lawyer
and knows the difference between oxymoron and a just-plain-moron. He is a
cowardly and chubby gnome with no future despite a reasonably accomplished
past.
People who get big jobs in any administration
are usually closer to the end of their working lives than the beginning.
So to them, it doesn't matter what's on their resumes or in their
LinkedIn profiles.
Yes, they worry about their “legacies” and their
places in history. That forgets that most people aren’t important enough
to have legacies or places in history.
Quiz: Who was George W. Wickersham and what was
his legacy? Answer: Wickersham, pictured above, was Attorney General in
the administration of president William Howard Taft. And his legacy? Hmmm.
Well, he fathered a future Army General. Served
on the council of foreign relations. Had sad eyes and a gorgeous mustache. Some
legacy. Some history.
What will Bill Barr’s be? Um… well, he was
Attorney General in two administrations, the current one and the one of the
milquetoast HW Bush.
Wickersham served 106 years ago. His legacy is
zero. What makes Barr or any of the other trumpets think their places in
history will make any waves in six years, let alone 106?
Barr is 68 years old. That’s not old-old
by today’s standards, but old enough to retire and practice playing the
bagpipes -- which he does.
That’s probably going to be his legacy. Also
cowering from Congressional committee testimony. Also, like his current
boss, he is a most un-New Yorky New Yorker.
I’m Wes Richards. My opinions are my own but
you’re welcome to them. ®
Comments? Send to wesrichards@gmail.com
© WJR 2019
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