To: i-node who wrote (832436 ) 1/26/2015 11:59:05 PM From: tejek Respond to of 1578305 >> And then he started speaking.........and for the next hour there was nary a complaint from anyone in that audience. That is the sign of greatness. I'm not drawing a comparison. But a person could have said the same thing about Adolf Hitler. He was a firey, passionate reader of speeches. Not a great orator. Not a great thinker, and certainly not a great leader. In essence, you were sucked in by an actor. Except he didn't talk about exterminating Jews. Can you possibly see the difference? Are you capable of separating your thinking process from your ideology? Probably not. Its why your view of leadership is so flawed. Richard Burton might well have done the same; perhaps Anthony Hopkins could have. Because you're false god of "greatness" is the cadence of the delivery of content developed by a near-teenager, a 24-year old who had no idea about what was good or even realistic. Only that it all rolled off the tongue. And to stop short of criticizing you for being so naive, so, too, were a lot of others in the country gripped by his rhetorical skills. But governing is a different matter. He has not governed in accordance with his speech, because no one could. His speech was about nothing; at least nothing that could occur in a real world. His speech was about a kinder, gentler America and he soon found out what many of already knew: a kinder, gentler America will result in the proliferation of evil around the world. So, now we have ISIS chopping off the heads of innocents, Iran moving ever closer to the destruction of Israel, our friends in the world having been abandoned and our enemies emboldened. Never mind.