We would like to think that John McCain is as clever a politician as Mark Antony who calls for reconciliation until the crowd demands that he reads Caesar’s Will and sends them out seeking blood. Does everybody remember Shakespeare’s modern touch by which Antony never does in fact show anyone the contents of the will? Every politician is to some extent like the Latin American dictator who asks “Where is the mob is headed to?” so that he can get there first and lead it. All but the lowest level of demagogue will tell themselves that once in power the example of their sterling personality coupled with the effects of their superior policies on garbage collection, crop rotation and interest rate adjustment will result in a higher level of civic virtue so that the mob will at least be headed in a better direction as the politician runs to catch up.