Writer's Block: A political affair

[Error: unknown template qotd] I normally ignore these but this I feel like responding to. There is an old e-mail that got passed around where people were asked to judge a person by their habits or defects and then were later told of who they were judging so harshly. The non smoking vegetarian leader ended up being Hitler, the politician with a penchant for drinking and smoking cigars and cursing was Churchill and so on down the line it went.

If you go through this train of thought and judge the politicians of our pasts by their habits or romantic liaisons we would have probably gotten rid of Thomas Jefferson (affair with a slave and multiple children out of wedlock with her) and discarded any of Benjamin Franklin's suggestions on how best to run the country (while his womanizing reputation may have been exaggerated he did have a "common law" wife and at least one bastard he openly accepted and admitted to.)

While I do not agree with their habits I have to say they did a fairly decently job of running/planning how America was to work (ignoring how it works now, thats a different topic entirely.) Our leaders are just people and have the remarkably common ability for both accomplishments and mistakes that we all have. While it would be great in theory to have saints running the world it isn't going to happen, and we should stop expecting it to and just focus on how well the politician does the job he was elected/given to do.

Thats all that matters to us, their dirty laundry is none of my business just like I expect mine to remain no one else's business but my own.

Writer's Block: A political affair

[Error: unknown template qotd] I normally ignore these but this I feel like responding to. There is an old e-mail that got passed around where people were asked to judge a person by their habits or defects and then were later told of who they were judging so harshly. The non smoking vegetarian leader ended up being Hitler, the politician with a penchant for drinking and smoking cigars and cursing was Churchill and so on down the line it went.

If you go through this train of thought and judge the politicians of our pasts by their habits or romantic liaisons we would have probably gotten rid of Thomas Jefferson (affair with a slave and multiple children out of wedlock with her) and discarded any of Benjamin Franklin's suggestions on how best to run the country (while his womanizing reputation may have been exaggerated he did have a "common law" wife and at least one bastard he openly accepted and admitted to.)

While I do not agree with their habits I have to say they did a fairly decently job of running/planning how America was to work (ignoring how it works now, thats a different topic entirely.) Our leaders are just people and have the remarkably common ability for both accomplishments and mistakes that we all have. While it would be great in theory to have saints running the world it isn't going to happen, and we should stop expecting it to and just focus on how well the politician does the job he was elected/given to do.

Thats all that matters to us, their dirty laundry is none of my business just like I expect mine to remain no one else's business but my own.