Obama "screws up" or does the right thing?

[Myra Bronstein]

Nice to see Gordo's high standards in action eh.

The old adage that one should judge a politician not by his words, but by his actions, has never been truer.

That said, when Brown banged on year after year about having miraculously altered the economic cycle to ensure there would be "no more Boom and Bust", he was writing his own political epitaph.

Just as Tony Blair wrote his ironic epitaph by declaring:

I would never do anything to harm the country or anything improper. I think most people who have dealt with me think I'm a pretty straight sort of guy, and I am

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The most reliable red flag I've identified about people is this: whenever they tell me what they're like; they're the opposite. People with integrity demonstrate their integrity with deeds, they don't describe it with words.

Which is another way of saying: "The old adage that one should judge a politician not by his words, but by his actions, has never been truer."