This Hillary/Obama flap has me thinking...
I'm tired, quite frankly, with all the debate about experience and ideas and charisma.
Experience, we now know, gets us embroiled in a bitter and violent civil war from which we may never extract ourselves.
Ideas are great, but true leaders are willing to accept the ideas of others. No one person is an idea factory, and a great country--and administration--will always be built on the ideas of many.
Charisma is worthless. Sure its fun to hang out with charsima ("grab a beer with" charisma), but Hitler was charasmatic. This quality doesn't rate too highly in my book.
I value judgment. Period.
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