#123 David S:
“Yes, and flaming unicorns may start shooting out my ass.”
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Look, man, I think what people are afraid of is a very valid concern that HAS happenned before, and has never ended well.
Let’s start with the kind of guy,(or gal), who seriously spends evry waking moment truly convinced that they are the best suited person of their time to be President.
We’re generally talking about people with a larger dose of ego than is healthy for them, are we not?
And I’d say that this is especially so for “self-made”, (still your howls about that for a minute, my fellow Conservatives); Heck, to get a get someone who ISN’T at least bordering on narcissim to run for the gig, we almost HAVE to look to “legacy” candidates from political dynasties, (Bush, Gore, Kennedy etcetera).
If you’ll grant the above, then we can move on, (as it were), to the effects of unbridled public adulation on a person who is already inclined to believe only the best about himself,(or herself).
It’s a very seductive thing for anyone to have everyone kissing their ass, and when the person who is being seduced is wielding power…well, if you can’t see the danger in that, then you’re a lot less intelligent than I gave you credit for.
One of the peculiar things about George Washington was that he first soured on the British because he was refused a commission in the British Army. He was what we would call a “Climber”, and this is evident in writings. He may be forgiven this perhaps, since it was his station to be born to Colonial Virginia’s Tidewater aristocracy, but the fact that when it REALLY counted, and he was offered the Crown of the United STates, he had the strength of character to go against his own nature and decline is what really makes him our greatest President.
Had Washington accepted, we perhaps would not have been a nation governed on democratic principles for a long, long time. We might not be one nation at all.
Now contrast Washington with the likes of a Richard Nixon or a Hillary Clinton.
They’d seize the crown that NOBODY had offered them.
Does that mean that Obama is immune to the -worship- of the “O-bots”, (great term, whoever that was…we’ve got our perjorative for the next four years!)?
I hope so…and I suspect that he is, but he bears watching.
That’s that “constant vigilance” thing we were warned about back in the Republic’s early days.
