Disagree. If you "overcome" great handicaps and end up on third base when the final out is made, you still lose. "Overcoming" is dramatic, but it's ultimately irrelevant. You don't care what the guy who had the wrong polio cure overcame, you only care that the guy who got the right cure was right.
"Trying" is commendable, but it does NOT equal achievement by itself, no matter what the odds.
99 posted on 02/25/2010 7:01:48 PM PST by LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
Maybe the right guy got the polio cure because the other right guy wasn’t given the chance. It sounds to me like you believe the ends justifies the means.
101 posted on 02/25/2010 7:14:56 PM PST by AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)