“Politics is the worthiest ambition, wrote John Buchan (the author of JFK’s favorite book, Pilgrim’s Way); it is the greatest and most honorable adventure.”
If this is true, why then are most politicians such flaming a$$holes?
Recall the bills and money management skills these grifters had before they were anointed to the ultimate bling jobs? They were up to their eyeballs in debt. Now the country is. See any pattern?
If this is true, why then are most politicians such flaming a$$holes?
Buchan was an adventure novelist, and he thought of politics as a big adventure novel, whether it really was or not.
Also, he was inside the establishment tent. People who were outside of it, in his day or ours, probably did think of politicians as mostly jerks or jokes.
But the big difference between Kennedy's world and Obama's is that people can get away with a lot more self-pity nowadays.