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I’m not sure what you’re asking for, Bob. If you need help with any specific task having to do with writing, proofreading, factchecking, technical stuff, etc., I’m sure a request for help here on the blog will elicit responses that accord with the particular schedules and abilities required.
If you’re seeking to build a staff in general, however, I’m not sure what our race needs is yet another far-right groupuscule organized according to the Führerprinzip. I was halfway serious in my last comment — what we need is not yet another party or pressure group, but a true deliberative body. A “White National Congress”, if you will. Right now, Bob’s Blog is the closest thing we have to that. By comparison, every other “white forum” on the Internet right now is only a glorified bathroom wall.

Comment by LibAnon

ME:

LibAnon, you must get your mind out of institutions!

Everything I have said about acting like senior staff has been that a senior sstaffer is NOT an organization man. He goes ahead and DOES things. He does not fit into the leftist, European, academic idea of an institution or a bureaucracy. You need to get your head out of that kind of thinking.

Robert Townshend, who turned Avis from an iunknown little company to Hertz’s major competitor in the 1960s, wrote a short best-seller about how business worked. He talked about people who write job descriptions for executives making a hundred thousand dollars a year, a fortune at the time.

He said that if you had had to WRITE a job description for him, the guy shouldn’t be at that level. He goes in and finds out what he should be doing. He asks for and gets the authority he needs.

BUT:

The JOB comes first. The bureaucratic definition of a job is what European companies thought of first and foremost. They couldn’t compete with Americans who just went ahead and DID things or got tossed out.

Nothing I have said even hints at an organization of any kind. I am saying that each person should go ahead and DO it. Does that sound organizational to you? Does that sound bureaucratic to you?

Simmons suggested that Dave might help me out. I said great, so who will make the next move? Obviously this should not be handled the old European way, while everybody sits there while His Majesty maketh up his mind. In European thought, Dave would now ask me what Simmons has in mind. In old Europe I then call in Simmons and he explains to me what he has in mind. Then I tell Dave what Simmons has in mind.

In bureaucratic terms see have now justified the time and pay of three executives, me, Dave and Simmons. And we haven’t accomplished a damned thing. As I heard one person say at the top, “Meetings beat the hell out of WORK.”

That is the way European institution work. Everybody stands frozen until the idea gets cleared at the top. While they’re sitting there frozen, serious professional go ahead and work out the suggestion. Dave asks Simmons what he has in mind.

Wow! That’s mind-numbingly complicated, isn’t it?

Yes, it IS. Most people simply can’t think that way. They had to learn it because it was learn or fail.

Until white people got to China, they didn’t have the wheel. Until Americans got back to Europe to use what they had learned conquering a continent, Europeans actually lived below our pauper level until we drove their businesses out of business.

Yes, below pauper level. I SAW it.

European business got run over and now they operate the American way. That is why the European standard of living is, for the first time in history, comparable to ours. You would not believe how poor the average European was when I first went there inthe 1950s, and they were richer than than pre-War.

So let me return to the steps I mentioned above:

1) Simmons suggested that Dave might help me out. I said great, so who will make the next move? Obviously this should not be handled the old European way, while everybody sits there while His Majesty maketh up his mind. In European thought, Dave would now ask me what Simmons has in mind. In old Europe I then call in Simmons and he explains to me what he has in mind. Then I tell Dave what Simmons has in mind.

2) In bureaucratic terms see have now justified the time and pay of three executives, me, Dave and Simmons.

3) Der Fuhrer Whitaker, Dave and Simmons get kicked out on our asses by somebody like Townshend and he finds somebody competent.

Believe me, what I am suggesting is as far from ” I’m not sure what our race needs is yet another far-right groupuscule organized according to the Führerprinzip” as you can get. I am trying to persuade YOU to get out of this Fuhrer or bureaucratic mode of thinking.

If Shari wants my speech reprinted without the repetitions she should copy and paste it, do the cuts, and hand the result to me. If I approve the basic idea baout Dave that Simmons suggests, Dave should go to Simmons and talk it over.

I do not expect you to grab all this at once. I did it far too well.

I terrified other senior staffers on Capitol Hill to the point that when John Ashbrook died I had a hard time finding a new job. When I got there, John had had an Administrative Assistant and a Legislative Assistant. They always talked iwth him and brought things to him. Two years after I got there, they both had left. I did their jobs incidentally. I figured out what John wanted and I didn’t go to him and tell him what I had done and then ask for more directions. I didn’t see him once a week. His earlier staff saw him every day.

In short, his organization was not necessary, and the very idea of having me in THEIR offices scared the crap out of staff members whose life was justified by talking to their boss daily. When my boss went to China, he demanded that I be there every day. This was pre-cell phone, and he needed someone there who would simply DO it in his name.

Does that sound rigidly organizational to you?

Someone just did a fine job initiating and setting up our yahoo! fall-back page. I said, “Go with it!” Then he asked me if he could stay in charge. What in the three words “Go with it” does he not understand?

I love his suggestion about expandingonthe buddy system, and I said so. Now he wants ME to propose it specifically. I am NOT your Fuhrer. If you have a proposal, PROPOSE. If I say it’s a good idea, you have my opinion that you should go iwth it. But, Hell, even if I don’t like it I am NOT your friggin’ FUHRER!

I REFUSE to be your frigging Fuhrer. I ahev repeated this until I am turning blue: I have some ideas that you can use. I have an approach that *****YOU****** repeat ***YOU**** repeat **YOU***** can use.

Whew! Have I made this obscure hint a little less obscure?

I want to make myself no longer ESSENTIAL to you. I am always happy to be useful, but being the essential one is the fear of my life, a point on which Dave hit in his comment that was like reading my mind.

Tomorrow I will expand on Dave’s wonderful commentary to show how DESPERATE a necessity it is to me to become if not unnecessary to you, at least not ESSENTIAL to you any more.

Right now I am going to go to bed with my frustration and hope to God some of this sinks in overnight.

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Sometimes you are too negative. Like other world improvers you take on too much, like you think it is your duty to save the entire white race including the Mommy Profs and their opposites the WalMartians. Instead you are the Mother of Pearl the nucleus to which to build upon. From here it is our job to bring back to the worthies of the white race that sense of Inquiry that took us to the top of the world instead of this funk best described in “Apocolypto” being ruled by Wordists and their pet word “racism.” So when you are feeling depressed (My guess like many talented people you are Manic/Depressive) put Dave in charge.

Comment by Simmons

ME:

Dave, would you be willing to do that from time to time?

Simmons is senior staff at its best, and if you really want to know the difference between SENIOR and regular staff, imagine giving your boss the kind of advice Simmons just gave me. The only person who can tell a congressman he went too far is his wife and his senior staff, and he won’t take his wife seriously.

In fact, that is what happened to me and my boss after I left Capitol Hill. He was a PAS, a presidential appointee with Senate approval, like a member of the Cabinet. But I cramped his style because I would tell him when he was about to step into the bucket with a cutesy trick. He was professor who had never been in DC politics before. All his other staffers were similar, no DC experience. They encouraged his getting cute and had nothing but praise.

He ended up being the only PAS reappointed by the president that I ever even HEARD of that the Senate voted out of office, refused to reconfirm. And the Senate was Republican and Reagan had just won reelection by a landslide! He tried a trick and lost his job. You see, I had been treated to his cold shoulder so I went on to a job as writer for the Voice of America. He had no one to throw cold water on him.

So he drowned.

Shari wrote a comment that I should reproduce my Iran speech without the repetitions. Had she been serious, she would have taken them out and given me a sample. Don’t worry, Shari, very few people would do that, But that is the kind of extra oomph senior staff has to put in.

And no, Shari, none of your comments are below par. Your problem is that you are a lady in a roughhouse here. Stay in here with us and you will finally understand that we hit each other hard, and you take comments about yourself too personally. Elizabeth is about the least apologetic person here, so she is obviously used to this kind of give and take that is a lot like mutual kicks in the teeth.

I need you HERE, Shari.

And you can take a lesson from Simmons. He grabs the old bastard by the beard and says sometimes he needs a rest. Why? Not just for my good, but for HIS. I hated to tell my boss things he didn’t want to hear, but he was my product. I am the major resource of this which blog has been made. Simmons wants the blog to do its job, so he doesn’t shrink from telling me how to do mine.

Of course the only person left out of our little threesome here is the man Simmons tapped. Dave, you ready for more? Peter, Mark? Senior staff is not bashful, unless you consider me an example of bashfulness. Whoever wants to do some basic pieces and take up more slack is invited to contact me, here or at bobw1830@yahoo.com

Needles to say, this offer only extends to those who have been readers and commenters for some time.

For the first ten years I wrote, I would write for anybody and I would read my stuff over and over.

How to we proceed? We start by seeing whether this appeal is met with silence.

I don’t do Whitakerisms any more. I see how things are developing and THEN I make plans, as I explained to LibAnon.