re: #271 austin_blue

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.

You’ve just described all the “ordinary” folk who have made America what she is today. Ordinary rising to the extraordinary.