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No, scary is if your don't see it coming. They are cautionary tales that should be watched, studied, and avoided in the future. For all his faults,W.Bush was in a frat and still had childhood friends who liked him in spite of his flaws. We knew he was flawed. His friends and wife confronted him about his problems with booze and he had to confront oil investors when he lost their money. As we know, there is more growth in failure than in success...and Ted and BO have to always be the smartest sob in the room, always successful, always right and everyone else is wrong, or stupid, or somehow lower than these more morally developed beings are. No one ever talks about being either Clinton's friend since childhood. Maybe it's an EQ versus IQ thing. Donald has made money, but also knows how to lose money. They say if you really want to know his psyche you need to read The Art of the Deal. Too bad more people didn't read the BO biographies more critically. And maybe Ted is smart not to have already written one.

Not that Trump doesn't have the ego-thing happening with him also. Just seems that he has really earned the right or that it's part of his "deal" game. He's made enemies, but after tonight, I think that maybe he has also made some friends.

Donald has made money, but also knows how to lose money.

Loved your comments.

I think it was Barry Diller who said one time, "the best thing that can happen to you in business is to utterly fail. Not a small failure, but a big failure that brings you to your knees. Only then do you learn how to run your business creatively."

That happened to me. I went bankrupt one time and I thank God my wife stayed with me. But you do gain instincts you never had until you fail.

And as you suggested, politicians like Obama and Cruz and Rubio are lacking an important ingredient -- they never really built anything on their own. And never had the opportunity to fail on their own. So they lack a certain measure of wisdom.

Now many businessmen later become politicians which is a good path. But just having a law degree and working in politics -- or for a large law firm -- gives you a distorted view of the forces that make our nation work.

I really feel Trump is grounded, solid, and careful. So it's an exciting prospect to think a guy so well-prepared could actually lead the country.