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In his Tuesday Cyber Dust post, Cuban also reflected on the meaning of leadership:

Leaders don't conform to the consensus. They create consensus to their vision and goals.

Leaders don't change their positions mid debate. They welcome scorn from the masses because it creates the opportunity for dialogue.

Leaders don't look backwards to condemn what has already been done, they look forward to create a better future.

Leaders are not dogmatic. They are principled and know that change is never easy, but when it's necessary, they must lead.

The Republican Party does everything possible to discourage leadership.

They want dogma.

They want conformity.

They want to conserve their romanticized past.

That's a shame. I wish they wanted to conserve the best of what America is today and find a leader that can take us to new places that make our future better.

I realize that's not the way politics work in this day and age. And that just proves the point.

"And btw, I know a lot of the same can be said about the Democrats, but I don't want to be a Democrat," he concluded. "Until things change, I'll sit in the middle and think for myself. Unlike the Republicans."

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Originally posted by Gatogordo:
Kensco:

I'm not allowed to play in the PF, but I see that great minds think alike and you beat me to it by about 4 hours.

It's amazing how the lock step, arm raising Republicans can't understand why they keep losing the Big One.

The way things are going, they may well do it again unless Hilary is done in by the Benghazi email flap.

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Originally posted by Gatogordo:
Actually no one ever told me, but I suspect it was because I mentioned that DRG's hero, Steve Jobs, was a liar and a thief in his earlier life. Truth hurts, I guess.

Several people PMed me and told me all I had to do was ask to be allowed to post.
Whether that was accurate or not, I don't know. My thoughts were that if I posted the absolute truth and got banned for it, then I didn't need to post in the SOB anyway.

The upside to it is that I haven't wasted many hours of my time trying to correct the multiple untruths that are spouted daily in the PF or "discuss" their views with people who get their main talking points from Rush/Hannity et al. To be honest, I'm glad I can't post there anymore and I very rarely read anything in there.

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Originally posted by Gatogordo:

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In his Tuesday Cyber Dust post, Cuban also reflected on the meaning of leadership:

Leaders don't conform to the consensus. They create consensus to their vision and goals.

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Originally posted by Opus1:
Ummm, you can thank Newt for that. Clinton was fighting for his survival when the entitlement cuts were put on his desk thanks to Newt's leadership. All Clinton could do at that point was lie to the American public about not having sex with that women. His goose was thoroughly cooked at that point.

And one other little tidbit, the Executive branch does not make law or control the purse strings...