Posts: 9634 | Location: Somewhere looking for ammo that nobody has at a place I haven't been to for a pistol I couldn't live without... | Registered: December 02, 2014
Originally posted by recoatlift: I’m going with para’s lead in…Are the leaders of all countries crazy.”
Fucking A straight they are!
I came to the conclusion long ago that anyone smart enough to be the President, or whatever, is smart enough to know that the job really sucks, and wouldn't want the job to begin with.
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"It's hard to imagine a more stupid or dangerous way of making decisions, than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." Thomas Sowell
Posts: 2048 | Location: PA | Registered: September 01, 2013
What separates the denizens of any ruckus at a Walmart and the leaders of nations is sheer luck of friendships, breadth of corruption, and willingness to rise when their alarm goes off.
The third is debatable.
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”—H.L. Mencken
Posts: 9185 | Location: West Michigan | Registered: April 20, 2006
“When addressing unsophisticated audiences, Mr Mugabe* makes sure to throw in a bit of mumbo-jumbo. At a rally in eastern Zimbabwe, for example, he threatened that ‘If you vote for Tsvangirai†, you will be visited by goblins.’ At another rally, he promised to rid the country of witches.” — “Special report Zimbabwe,” The Economist, 23 February 2002.
* “Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017.” † An opposition Zimbabwean politician. — Wikipedia
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“It is a habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.” — Thucydides; quoted by Victor Davis Hanson, The Second World Wars
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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
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