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.