Oct 05, 2012 20:09
""What does this remind you of?
"I believe in hope, not fear."
"I'm a leader, not a politician."
"It's time for an American leader."
"America's earned a change."
"I before 'E' except after 'C'!"
It's the fortune-cookie candidacy!
These are important thinkers,
and understanding them can be
very useful
and it's not ever going to happen
at a four-hour seminar.
When the President's got an embassy
surrounded
in Haiti,
or
a keyhole photograph of a heavy water
reactor,
or
any of the fifty life-and-death matters
that walk across his desk every day,
I don't know if he's thinking about
Immanuel Kant
or not.
I doubt it,
but if he does,
I am comforted at least in my certainty
that he is doing his best to reach for
all of it
and not
just
the McNuggets.
Is it possible we would be willing to
require any less of the person
sitting in that chair?
The low road?
I don't think it is.""
(aaron sorkin)