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<blockquote data-quote="LILmermaid" data-source="post: 2794301" data-attributes="member: 98679">&quot;Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.&quot; -Jerry Garcia&quot;I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.&quot; -Winston Churchill&quot;If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.&quot; -Franklin D. Roosevelt &quot;People identify with a president in a way they do with no other public figure. Potential presidents are measured against an ideal that&#039;s a combination of leading man, God, father, hero, pope, king, with maybe a touch of the avenging Furies thrown in. They want him to be larger than life, a living legend, and yet quintessentially human; someone to be held up to their children as a model; someone to be cherished by themselves as a revered member of the family, in somewhat the same way in which peasant families pray to the icon in the corner. Reverence is where the power is.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="LILmermaid, post: 2794301, member: 98679"] "Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil." -Jerry Garcia "I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly." -Winston Churchill "If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time." -Franklin D. Roosevelt "People identify with a president in a way they do with no other public figure. Potential presidents are measured against an ideal that's a combination of leading man, God, father, hero, pope, king, with maybe a touch of the avenging Furies thrown in. They want him to be larger than life, a living legend, and yet quintessentially human; someone to be held up to their children as a model; someone to be cherished by themselves as a revered member of the family, in somewhat the same way in which peasant families pray to the icon in the corner. Reverence is where the power is." [/QUOTE]

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