re: #208 LGoPs

True leaders IMO are ordinary people that rise to the circumstances and challenges that confront them. And I don’t think you can plan for greatness or contrive it. I have an aversion to those that are overly ambitious and seek out greatness. People like that should be shunned and avoided and certainly not put in power.
I felt that way about Hillary and definitiely feel that way about Obama. Anybody that wants power that badly sholdl be kept as far away from it as possible.

Evening, Lizards!

LGoPs;

I have heard this mythos again and again, and I must respectfully disagree. Benjamin Franklin, Tom Jefferson, James Monroe, John Adams, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, &c., &c. & ad infinitum. These were not ordinary men. They were extraordinarily intelligent men, with vision, drive, and a desire to make their world a better place. Greatness was thrust upon them not because they got lucky but because they worked their asses off for the greater good as they perceived it.