This is what my fortune cookie from Sunday night dinner (Buddha's Delight, yum!) told me: "It is proper to speak the truth." Right on fortune cookie, I couldn't agree more. In fact, I may tape this fortune to a letter and mail it to Karl Rove. I'd send it to W. but I doubt his literacy.
Another thought occured to me Sunday night when I heard about the impending DVD release of the first few seasons of MacGyver on DVD. MacGyver had a quality I find really sexy, and I think we need to cultivate in our leaders: cool, unassuming competence. MacGyver got his job done, with whatever he had to hand, with no whining and no dithering. Wes Clark has this quality, and so did Colin Powell before his Bushie sell-out. I suspect that John Edwards could also have this quality, my experience is that sucessful trial lawyers usually do. Madeleine Albright has it too, which I think is evidenced by her negotiations with Kim Jong Il. George Bush is utterly lacking competence of any kind, and his administration is quickly losing any pretensions in that direction they may have had. It may be that we can appeal to the vast middle of America by exuding cool competence just as Bush has appealed to them with his "aww shucks" [fake] folksyness.
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