Some people believe that in order to be effective, political leaders must yield to public opinion and abandon principle for the sake of compromise. Others believe that the most essential quality of an effective leader is the ability to remain consistently committed to particular principles and objectives.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.
What makes an effective political leader? Remaining a steadfast adherent of your particular principles or abandoning them as a compromise for public opinion. In an ideal world one would readily agree with the latter. It would be naïve to assume that we live in an ideal world. In the current world to be an effective leader one must remain consistently committed to particular principles and objective. In this essay we refer to Health care bill proposed by Obama as an example to bolster our conclusion.
The question is what constitutes a public opinion. In ideal world politicians would be the ...
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