Surfacing resistance and Cindy Sheehan...

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

I'm a nursing supervisor in an ambulatory care clinic. I had the bad luck to get this job following a supervisor who was fired for her unethical management of the department. Her specialty was harvesting favoritism and ignoring egregious behavior. This made her was beloved by quite a few staff members. (But certainly not all)

So, I and other management colleagues come in and set new, and higher, benchmarks for performance. This results in increased turnover and stress in the first six to eight months of my arrival.

On several occasions I had "surfacing resistance" meetings, where I, and my management colleagues, would open up discussion by saying, "What is the most upsetting thing to all of you?" We would encourage everyone to air their grievances (shades of Festivus :)). It wasn't fun, but it was cathartic, for the staff and, at times, very informative, for us in management.

So, if gwb had any ability to see beyond his self-centered and megalomaniac tendencies, he could have utilized this strategy with Cindy.

On seeing her in the audience...acknowledge her sacrifice, show empathy. Comment on the fact that she, and many others, clearly disagree with his current policy. Say the very liberties exercised by her, and others that disagree with him, make him even more inspired to protect those rights. She could have aired her grievance, via her T-shirt and he would have come across as magnaminous and sympathetic.

However, he is a f*^&ing ignorant, arrogant ass&*%#, who quivers at the mere thought of opposition. He, again, looks like the simpering coward that he actually is.

This guy needs a crash course in middle management to deal with...well, life. MKJ

[northofdenali]

1. However, this particular strategy

is way, way beyond his intelligence.

I can, however, see the Big Dog doing just this.

[PDJane]

2. Clinton, Reagan,

even Nixon could have done this........but it is beyond the Bush ability.

He's a spoiled, fractious, recaltricent child.

[babylonsister]

3. BHP, thank you lots!

And goddammit, why is it okay or acceptable to do it?

[Breeze54]

4. but bush wasn't in the room...it happened before the speech....

I agree with most of what you said except that
your still expecting civility from this prick!
He needs a TWELVE STEP PROGRAM and a reality check!!