BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

I don't think so. No. But it seems I and this author are in the minority, unfortunately. by Stephen Rose It’s hard to express just how disgusted I get when hearing this “loyalty to the President while he is still in office” crap! We’ve repeatedly been the recipients of this faulty logic as various former members of the Bush Administration have been unabashedly attacked for saying anything negative about their previous employers, the President and his staff – names such as Richard Clarke, Paul O’Neill, Joseph Wilson, and now Scott McClellan come to mind. How clearly can it be stated -- The loyalty of any government employee is ultimately to the United States of America, not to any politicians or leaders, or to the offices they hold! Any government office is only as important as the person who holds it. Though the oath taken by the President is to the nation, and the oath of the military is to the President, the implication of the latter is that the President will be loyal to the na...

ABSURD!!! And here I thought this was America. CalState system ousts another instructor who objects on religious grounds to a pledge adopted by California in 1952 to root out communists. By Richard C. Paddock When Wendy Gonaver was offered a job teaching American studies at Cal State Fullerton this academic year, she was pleased to be headed back to the classroom to talk about one of her favorite themes: protecting constitutional freedoms. But the day before class was scheduled to begin, her appointment as a lecturer abruptly ended over just the kind of issue that might have figured in her course. She lost the job because she did not sign a loyalty oath swearing to "defend" the U.S. and California constitutions "against all enemies, foreign and domestic." The loyalty oath was added to the state Constitution by voters in 1952 to root out communists in public jobs. Now, 16 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, its main effect is to weed out religious believers...

Relying on loyalty could hurt Bush This article, written in 2000, was very prophetic. We now see how people like Lewis "Scooter Libby, Alberto Gonzales and Colin Powell paid and are paying the price for their "loyalty." By Aubrey Immelman When Bill Clinton ran for president in 1992, the nation knew all about Gennifer Flowers. Later, it would learn much more than it needed to know about Monica Lewinsky. Whereas a president's policy preferences and polls numbers are prone to change, his deeply etched personal qualities are remarkably consistent . In leadership studies, it is precisely this stability that imbues character and personality insights with predictive power in anticipating the shape of things to come. Thus, Knight Ridder Newspapers could report earlier this month, "Bush offered a glimpse of the leadership style he intends to bring to the Oval Office in a series of interviews ... during his presidential campaign. The president-elect delegates authority, ...