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Tell Us: Are We a Nation of Wusses?

Former Pa. Governor Ed Rendell says we've become a "Nation of Wusses"

 

Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has a new book out proclaiming that the United States has become a "Nation of Wusses."

Do you agree? Vote in our poll and add your comments below.

Have our leaders lost the guts to make us great?

Rendell's book combines anecdotes from his storied career as a district attorney, mayor and governor with criticisms of high-profile politicians and the country's seeming inability to confront and solve chronic problems, according to this report.

A Morning Call Q&A with Rendell quotes him as saying he wrote the book for two reasons:

"One was to give people a sense of the challenge and fun that exists in public life even though the frustrations and challenges and disappointments are a great part of what you go through in public service. I wanted people to get a sense of the pure unadulterated fun you can have."

Rendell's musings range from calling animals such as racehorse Smarty Jones "infinitely brave" to declaring that U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan is not a wuss but that he is "nuts" in his views on the federal budget.

Rendell says the electoral college should be dismantled and that he will enthusiastically serve as campaign chairman for Hillary Clinton if she decides to run for president again.

Here's what's being said - good and bad - about Rendell's book.

  • Do you agree with former Gov. Ed Rendell's assessment that we have become a Nation of Wusses?

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        88 (88%)
    • No
        11 (11%)
    Total votes: 99
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Related Topics: A Nation of Wusses, Gov. Ed Rendell, Hillary Clinton, Politics, Smarty Jones, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, and Wusses

Robert Sentner

9:24 am on Monday, June 18, 2012

Speak for yourself fast Eddy, most of us are hard working citizens trying to dig out of the mess that you and ALL republican and Democrats created. Go collect your pension and crawl back under the rock you came from.

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Tony

9:48 am on Monday, June 18, 2012

Off the subject but related...Romney wussed out attending the Wawa campaign spot in PA over the weekend. Just saying...:)

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Stew

10:05 am on Monday, June 18, 2012

I believe that as a Nation we have strayed from the original founders concept of our what our nation should be like. We have lost fact of the importance of localize government and have allowed the politics of Washington D.C. to get out of control. Are we a Nation of Wusses? We are a Nation that is in serious disarray from the out dated electoral college system, to the numerous entitlement programs. Many of these programs have awesome potential to help our citizens, however they are cluttered in the red tape.

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Liberalism is a mental disorder

10:16 am on Monday, June 18, 2012

Yo Fatty Rendell.... you live to create lazy wusses who depend on the government. And you have essentially succeeded.... we have a do nothing, nimrod president who hasn't done anything but work to destroy the country with handouts, and he is likey to win. We have finally come to a point where the wusses, lazy bums and union lunk heads (most of whom don't even have a union job anymore) amount to more than 50% of the country. Now the working people can become their slaves, paying their welfare, pensions, food stamps and other handouts. Great.

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Rob Hamill

10:43 am on Monday, June 18, 2012

This is an offshoot to Atty General Holder calling us a "Nation of cowards" one week into serving his term, and before he sent 30,000 guns to Mexico with Oboombah's approval. Democrats live on insulting us, they think it makes them look smart.

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louis kootsares

11:35 am on Monday, June 18, 2012

what we are is the product of self serving government represenatives serving the people with the money and themselves taking and not serving what us americans ..the public are is apathtic and its coming to a head and i think the best term to use to describe us is.... suckers believing its government for the people

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blue

8:31 am on Tuesday, June 19, 2012

".... suckers believing its government for the people."

I agree. I believe we have become a nation of sheeple. We are so easily manipulated, deceived, and played. Also much like a herd of cattle. If more people would just step outside of the herd, and clear their heads enough to look and see what's really going on. If only....

Peter

12:02 pm on Monday, June 18, 2012

I agree with him on this point only...we are becoming a nation of wussies. you know, when you're a kid you're told "sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me"...apparently that works until you become an adult. this young country succeeded due to individualism, personal responsibility and motivation, and hard work. i fear though that the older this country gets, the more like Europe we become. Hell, in some schools kids aren't allowed to play games where there are winners and losers! how are you supposed to learn that in life you don't just get to "win" every time? kids grow up never facing adversity. that's why we're a nation of wusses. i'm not some old curmudgeon complaining about young people...i'm 31 and while i feel that a lot of people in my age group have the same mentality as i have, i also see people i grew up with that are part of the entitlement society.

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Tim Killimaji

8:43 pm on Monday, June 18, 2012

we are a bunch of wusses, everyone in little league gets a trophy even if they are a loser.... not a recipe for success

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Tim Killimaji

9:16 pm on Monday, June 18, 2012

would you be willing to pay $20 a joint?

louis kootsares

9:27 am on Tuesday, June 19, 2012

first yes make drugs legal remove the profit and the danger to the public and law officers from robberys trying to get money for drugs now under saddam obahma dictatorship the freedom of speech is being taken away if someone expresses what they are thinking the term racist or bashing appears... boohoo liberals in our schools and sports programs have games where there are no winners... look at our education system parents need to be role models.. teachers as role models?look in the newspapers kiddy porn drugs dating students nd how many of those parasites could handle the real world ..with a real job?or how many did anything that a monkey could not do if it could talk?

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moderate Republican

9:40 am on Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Part of the problem is, indeed, that many people do have not faced adversity. But a bigger part of the problem is the fact that we have allowed our Two Parties to hold a true monopoly. Of course, they disagree with each other, but there is one thing they agree on 100%: that THEY are in charge. They keep a perfectly legal slush fund for each party (our money) in the form of caucus funds--each party does this, and the fund is huge. Finally a few are going to jail for using employees to campaign. Changing the legalized corruption in Harrisburg will require a change of attitude on our parts.

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louis kootsares

10:42 am on Tuesday, June 19, 2012

oh there is lots of money and lots of corruption long ago when the reform party wanted to run ex govorners lamb and penny for president and vice president i remarked to a big shot republican money man that we could have 100mil for the campaign kinda bragging humpf he said the party is young if it succeeds it will improve that busted my balloon just how much monet did the other 2 partys have

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Tommy

10:45 am on Wednesday, June 20, 2012

I think it takes alot of stones for a stalwart member of the Democratic party, who himself has supported so many "social programs" and hand outs, to call us all a nation of wusses. He's helped creat, coddle, caress, and financ the majority of wusses in our country.

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Dana Grubb

5:10 pm on Wednesday, June 20, 2012

One thing is for sure, we're no longer the nation that fought like h*ll to preserve freedom and liberty and defeat tyranny in World War II. Blame it on the politicians if you want, but we the people elect them. Of course, the options we're often given in the way of candidates leaves a lot to be desired.

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