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Originally Posted by rubicon
eweissenbach: When he was just a young politician starting out Harry S.Truman came to the aid of a black gentleman in his home town, not a very popular thing to do back then especially in a southern state. He was a humble man who never violated his principles and beliefs and accepted accountability for his actions and decisions. He has been in my eyes , for a very long time, one of the few good presidents since Abe Lincoln
This begs the question why can't this country continue or once again produce this caliber of leadership? Where have all the good intelligent and ethical people gone? Does our political machination destroyand/or contaminate good people before they or their ideas have had a chance to mature ? Or is our society as a whole so contaminated now that only those with the desire to possess power and control and with the funds to do so prevail in our political system....Perhaps both?
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Many good people are probably very turned off by all the things they lose when running for President of the United States like privacy, money from campaigning, control over many things, etc.
Even though probably not that accurate to the facts about Sarah Palin and her pick as VP, HBO's
Game Change depicts what happens when the media gets focused on someone who gets involved running for high office in the US.