30-06-2012, 02:18 AM
Again and to be clear, I am on all too intimate terms with the demands placed upon those running for public office to assume positions and personae contrary to their most deeply held beliefs and natures.
One must be elected before one can bring about paradigm-shifting change.
I get it.
As I recently advised a candidate for public office -- let's call him Tony G -- it is the character Tony G, as opposed to the actual person, who is going to be presented to the electorate.
So it was the character JFK who campaigned as a Cold Warrior par excellence in 1960.
I get it.
By June 10, 1963, however, JFK had changed. Profoundly. Deeply.
Changed.
One must be elected before one can bring about paradigm-shifting change.
I get it.
As I recently advised a candidate for public office -- let's call him Tony G -- it is the character Tony G, as opposed to the actual person, who is going to be presented to the electorate.
So it was the character JFK who campaigned as a Cold Warrior par excellence in 1960.
I get it.
By June 10, 1963, however, JFK had changed. Profoundly. Deeply.
Changed.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene