The latest one is John Edwards who I supported with time and money. But unlike some folks around here I’m not going show immaturity nor bloviating ego to call the guy an asshole like other well known Kossacks have because I am smart enough and old enough to have expected it. I don’t know the brain malfunction of most people who somehow elevate politicians as more than human then curse them out while gnashing their teeth and rending their garments when their flaws or lies are revealed, because frankly they look like childish fools who do not seem to have processed their personal experiences as adults into wisdom about the world.
If anyone has a right to be pissed off about John Edwards it would be me but I would have to stand in a long line with many others ahead of me. You see, being on SS disability I donated a full month’s rent to his campaign and while being unable to walk 100 feet without excruciating pain I still drove hundreds of miles per day to work on Edwards’ South Carolina campaign and went door to door to promote the things in which both he and I espoused.
So, reading the reprobation of others about Edwards from people who did little-to-nothing to help him looks a bit clownish and self-serving.
When I chose to support John Edwards it was because his rhetoric dovetailed with my beliefs and goals about the political and social system and agreed with him on how best to pursue those goals. I mentioned on other threads that is exactly the purpose of a political leader, viz., to be the vehicle by which personal perspectives and hopes get spread to a larger audience. I also stated that when such leaders fail to carry out their purpose they should be thrown onto the junk heap. I was never interested in John Edwards "the man," but what he could do for my aspirations about America.
I do not believe in cults of personality because I know human beings are flawed, and now I transfer from the Edwards vehicle my hopes and dreams for America.
I knew beforehand that all politicians lie and am not disappointed to find out that I was right.
So to those whose pump up their own egos by sanctimoniously cursing out the man on this forum or elsewhere, please, try to grow up. If you are the adults you think you are you ought to have known that
POLITICIANS LIE.
And the only thing that matters is how far they can carry your aspirations about how to make this a better world.