[Zardoz]

If you're not familiar with him, here's his wiki page:

Lee Iacocca

This page has a great excerpt from his new book:

Where Have All The Leaders Gone?

Here's a little bit of it:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')ad Enough? Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, "Stay the course."

Stay the course? You've got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned Titanic. I'll give you a sound bite: Throw the bums out! You might think I'm getting senile, that I've gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore.

The President of the United States is given a free pass to ignore the Constitution, tap our phones, and lead us to war on a pack of lies.Congress responds to record deficits by passing a huge tax cut for the wealthy (thanks, but I don't need it). The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs. While we're fiddling in Iraq, the Middle East is burning and nobody seems to know what to do. And the press is waving pom-poms instead of asking hard questions. That's not the promise of America my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for.

[Denny]

He's is right on. I hope I am that senile at his age. And, good to hear someone of wealth admit that giving them a tax cut is stupid. I would have thought most everybody would think that to begin with.

It just goes to show how sheep like the public have become that they start believing that giving the wealthy more than the poor somehow makes America greater.

[basil_hayden]

I read very few books, I think my last one was a Tim Allen book, and he's dropped off the face of the planet, so that gives you an idea of how often I read a book. Too much reading at work to read for pleasure. The internet has taken the place of reading lately for me, especially all the golden nuggets of knowledge on this site.

BUT I got this book the minute I heard about it.

It's a 300 page rant, po'ers would be proud. I have about 50 pages to go.

Lee doesn't entirely get it, but he's close.

I plan on passing it on to my uncle, who is still blinded by Bush.

I think he respects Lee and would read and incorporate the content, and wake the frigg up.

Iacocca has 5 things we should be thinking about at the next election, and 9 leadership qualities we should look for, and five priorities, which when boiled down add up to just one - peak oil.

Many of the things he discusses I learned here on PO.com first.
Kudos to all the participants, thank you big time for the enlightenment.

Iacocca talks about his run-in with the medical community while his foundation tries to find a cure for type 1 diabetes, which his wife Mary died of years ago. A cure can't be found, because then all that lovely free funding for research would dry up. Sweet.

Our leaders have definitely, without a doubt, sold us down the river. The way I see it, short of absolutely no one voting or paying taxes for a couple years, there's no stopping them.

Any book that has the term whale-shit in it is OK by me!

[Newsseeker]

Lee is not my favorite person in the world but I agree with his statements.