Reply #62: Just stay away from the Kool-Aid [View All]

[PurityOfEssence]

Many lessons are to be had from the whole affair, but among them is this: things and people are often not what they seem or present themselves to be.

Just as many will absolve Junior of many of his actions because they long since decided that he was good, many do the same thing for Dean. At what point does one's actions actually count?

Nobody is more responsible for his flame out than Dean himself. He had a vibrant movement filled with motivated people, the press was his enemy, but it was also his friend, fueling the rise. There was vast and seething frustration looking for a leader.

Qualities many look for in a President are not to be sneezed at: self restraint, accuracy, TELLING OF THE TRUTH, finesse and some form of self-effacing decency. The victimhood of a group of people who's principal activity was deceptive character assassination is a tough concept for me to square with reality.