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October 12, 2015
How Will Bernie Show His Toughness? Certainly Not Like Chris Christy
By Rob Kall
Chris Christie Calls Obama Weak, Says HE Would Shoot Down Russian Planes Over Syria.
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Chris Christie Calls Obama Weak, Says HE Would Shoot Down Russian Planes Over Syria.
"My first phone call would be to Vladimir, and I'd say, 'Listen, we're enforcing this no-fly zone,'" Mr. Christie said on MSNBC. "And I mean we're enforcing it against anyone, including you. So don't try me. Don't try me. Because I'll do it."
Mr. Christie went on to say that Mr. Putin was "punching above his weight" and called Mr. Obama "this weakling in the White House."
Christie is pretty typical of the GOP slate for 2016, callously showing toughness by their willingness to send our nation and our troops into new wars, or willingness to take away financial stability and support from the weakest and most vulnerable.
It's reasonable to expect that a presidential candidate be tough. But willingness to go to war seems like an archaic, patriarchal, childish, bullying, neocon, chickenshit top down way to prove strength.
The best way to prove you are tough is through your past actions-- your track record. Truly tough people don't have to threaten with hard power, ie., violence or monetary. They demonstrate strength combined with wisdom, courage and compassion.
So, how would you say Bernie Sanders has proven his toughness? How do you think he should show he is tougher than the GOP members of the shortpenisgunclub, like Christy. How do believe Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden will show their toughness.
How would describe the ingredients that go into toughness.
Who have they stood up to? How did they handle it? Was it a confrontation or a measured negotiation? How was it resolved. Who has Bernie, Hillary, Joe stood up for?
I'm really hoping OEN community will come up with some great answers here.
Authors Bio:
Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
Check out his platform at RobKall.com
He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com
more detailed bio:
Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.
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Rob was published regularly on the Huffingtonpost.com for several years.
Rob is, with Opednews.com the first media winner of the Pillar Award for supporting Whistleblowers and the first amendment.
To learn more about Rob and OpEdNews.com, check out A Voice For Truth - ROB KALL | OM Times Magazine and this article.
For Rob's work in non-political realms mostly before 2000, see his C.V.. and here's an article on the Storycon Summit Meeting he founded and organized for eight years.
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Talk Nation Radio interview by David Swanson: Rob Kall on Bottom-Up Governance June, 2017Here is a one hour radio interview where Rob was a guest- on Envision This, and here is the transcript..
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