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To: jbe who wrote (56814)	10/3/1999 12:46:00 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

I agree- and I always hope the guy who seems the least egomaniacal, and the most unsure, will win- naturally I end up voting for a lot of losers. And I LIKE it that way- cause I can put one of them thar stickers on my car that reads "Don't blame me I didn't vote for the sonofabitch"

To: jbe who wrote (56814)	10/3/1999 1:13:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Joan --- are you really that cynical? Suppose, like Bradley, you believe you have a small chance to win (supported marginally by polls). Suppose you see poor Al Gore as the only Democratic alternative. Suppose you see the men of little minds on the Republican side and say in honest truth that none of them can do the job. You know better than most that high political office is a wearing and awful experience, but in all honesty, you see that you the country and even the world needs a better candidate. No doubt, you know your imperfections far better than anyone else. You may know some things about yourself that would humiliate you were they known. You would prefer to sit it out, but you have inside a sense of duty that makes you want to try. There's diffidence there, and not all that much hope. But you've got to try. There are some truly excellent people who take on undoable jobs. They are called martyrs or burden bearers in the literature. It is just the opposite of egomania. It is self-sacrifice. These are not low-grade people like Bauer, Keyes, Quayle, Buchanan, and other non-achievers who have to hope that everyone else running dies, but great men who do their duty against their own interest. Do you suppose Washington thought that he could beat the British Empire, or Robert E. Lee the union armies (whose command he had refused)?