I've heard Lincoln was gay... [View All]

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...And that Washington had slaves. And that Jefferson had at least one. Teddy Roosevelt wasn't your daddy's liberal. And yet they all wound up on a mountain...

FDR had a mistress, Kennedy was a womanizer, Carter fought a rabbit, and Clinton parsed words.

Wasn't a single one who was a super hero, yet each in his own way advanced America. Nixon was the villain of my youth yet he founded the EPA, went to China, and ended the Vietnam war.

I guess politicians are mostly neither better nor worse than you or I. I pride myself that among myself and my three siblings there were divorces but at least no friggin' beneath the sheets....Maybe the bigger ego it takes to get elected makes for bigger mistakes....

Let us please put all the nonsense to bed. Politicians have, for better or worse, signed on to run this country. People here are hungry and homeless and sick without care through no failing of their own. If Vitter came up tomorrow with a plan to aid our fellow citizens we should support him. If Craig were to plan to prosecute thieves in high places we should elect him to congress. And If Gingrich had a plan to revitalize our economy we should draft him for the Presidency.

But they don't. They are merely small men with foibles large or small. We need large men with great dreams and if we believe that what they say is what they will try with all their might to do, then and only then will they deserve our support.

In the coming race, the Republican contenders are small minded people. We will be presented with stories of rectitude without vision and virtue without compassion.

I'll take the human.