Much better.

On the positions of Ron Paul (or any other politician) we should always remember that politics is the choice between a variety of evils - our task in primaries being to choose the least, and in general elections the lesser of two - and to bear in mind that our very best judgment at the time of an election may very well turn out to be mistaken. If we cannot approach the task with that understanding, it may be better not to attempt it at all.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/II11Ak03.html

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In 2004, the online magazine Salon published an interview with Yoshi Tsurumi, Bush’s first-year macroeconomics professor at the Harvard Business School during the 1973-74 academic year…

Bush … frequently came to class late, and rarely participated in class discussions, choosing instead to sit up in a back row of the class wearing his Texas Air National Guard (Tsurumi reports that Bush bragged that his father’s political connections got him out of the requirement of full service in the Texas ANG) bomber jacket spitting chewing tobacco into a paper cup.

“Yup, one of those.” I, and probably every other teacher, groaned upon first reading that. Every class has one of those. This one went on to be president of the United States.

Bush scored in the lowest 10% of his class; as for his skills in, as the grade-school report cards put it, “getting along with others”, Tsurumi reported that even there young Bush needed some remedial help.

“He showed pathological lying habits and was in denial when challenged on his prejudices and biases. He would even deny saying something he just said 30 seconds ago. He was famous for that. Students jumped on him; I challenged him. When asked to explain a particular comment, Bush would respond, ‘Oh, I never said that.’”

In other words, even then he showed precisely the attributes Americans really want in their president.
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Quote of C.N.W. the soon to be t.v. station, [thanks God!?!] : quote - "I know from long and sad experience that there is no human achievement less rewarding than being right too soon." (end quote)

Oh, stop your whining!?! The protagonist in my short story AMERICAN CARTOON whines ineluctably in similar fashion and his wife in the story calls him on it. ... Ok, so I'll be the broad (now in real life)... stop your whining. Let it go. -

I kid. No, seriously there's - in a larger or separate reality no such thing as being right too soon. But here in this world you are correct (like my protagonist) - since we are all a part of the group, then also even when we simply attempt to nudge it in the right direction -as it were- "too soon" ... They often turn on you of course. And you are correct, subsequently since we are all inevitably a part of the group yes - IT CAN BE VERY UNREWARDING. Sometimes even though we sense or possibly know it in advance we still do it since it seems to be our role or karma?????? We don't care... we have that poetic sensibility which says teach us to care and not to care. Funny.

Then when it's 'time' at last for what you attempted to nudge them toward, and they go for it since it's obvious to them... it's more UNREWARDING still, since they act like THEY KNEW IT ALL ALONG. ouch, mama. D'hats democrazy boss.

So you are correct... but not in the LARGER or separate reality wherein it is never too soon to be what it already IS (right) ... C'est la [double/even treble] vie. I guess it's always two-two-two mints in One? Funny. Sad. Almost makes one want to rob a bank, no? NO. Or get thee to a banker!?! Ok... I'm reaching to my bookshelf for Shakespeare, he must have something to say on the matter?!?

Ah, he seems to be agreeing with me or 'us' ...

'If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.' -W.S.

amen
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