My FAVORITE president! George, we need you. Shoot, we could even use somebody with 1/1000th of your character and guts.
Too much to ask for.
Tough times create tough people. Soft times create soft people. We have nothing but soft people now, but I suspect the next year will start creating tough people again.
Can you imagine what a change would be wrought if every American who calls themselves "conservative" would simply adopt George Washington's attitude towards politics?
-- George Washington "If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God."
Mitt Romney would get about ten per cent of the vote in November.
I’m currently reading a new biography about GW, which continues to be enlightening.