Reply #11: When a person is a professional, and in public life... [View All]

[noel711]

your success and effectiveness in your profession is based on
your ability to treat the public with equality,
and to accept everyone with good will.

That's how all politicians garner respect and a following...
to accept the public with graciousness.

No one can be seen by the public as a leader without
this attitude. Look at any politician.. each person who has
'made' it has a wide range of associations. There's no way
a professional can screen, or 'vet, everyone who comes to them
for advice, or everyone who supports them.

It's just not possible. Look at all the incredible people
Geo. W. Bush has associated with... try not to laugh to loudly.

As a professional myself, I can't believe this argument. It is really
stretching.. Can anyone with intelligence accept this rationale?

I've met with drug addicts, right wingers, left wingers,
I've counseled with Moslems, pagans, child molesters,
and crack manufacturers.
I've been to jails to visit with thiefs and abusers.
but then, as a professional, that's my job.
I suppose if I were to run for office, there'd be all manner
of smear because I don't draw a line separating me from others,
especially those who need my services...
I daresay Obama is like that also.

It's pathetic if we live in a time and place where true leadership
must maintain 'purity' from real people, and sometimes real people
are those outside the law.
It's more pathetic if those people with which we live have sought
to 'redeem' themselves, and give back to the community but we
can't and won't forget their past.

We had no trouble forgetting the bizarre youthful indiscretions
of a certain George W. Bush.