Anybody in his right mind with any good reputation at all would steer clear of seeking public office. It is to the point that wanting it at all is disqualifying. What a conundrum.
100%. People who think we need a George Washington to save us don’t realize GW couldn’t get elected today, and wouldn’t even want to try.
And George would have a lot of company.
There are only two things I can think of that I really want if somehow something happened to move the needle on my finances substantially. One is a very live spring fed, cold, clear creek in my backyard. The other is more solitude than I have now. A place where I can’t hear another person or automobile, quiet.
I get bothered when someone turns in the driveway to turn around or stays there too long. I surely could not make it with public office or any prying eyes no matter my lilly white innocence.
George would have a lot of company in not even wanting to try to be elected for anything.
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True enough. But thank God we had a "savior" like George Washington in the Revolutionary War and as President in the early years of our republic.
Different times require a different sort of person. One of the things I respect President Trump for is he'd rather NOT take the job as President. But he feels it's his duty to do help Save America and is risking his life and much more to support We the People in this dark hour of our Nation.
Every generation requires a George Washington, a Winston Churchill, and countless veterans of foreign and domestic wars to step up.
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a terrific piece about the magnetism of George Washington which I turned into a little meme. Click here to see and read the meme full screen. See if you think Emerson's words still ring true today...
