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Originally Posted by serum114
You can see this principle in the current US election. Barack Obama is considerably better than John McCain — but he too has his dreadful drawbacks we will have to oppose. He has pledged, if he wins, “Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided” — a pledge that would make any proper two-state solution impossible. He has defended the right of Colombia’s hard-right government to invade its neighbours. Faced with this, you can’t give up: support the great parts of his programme — like expanding healthcare in the US — and oppose the bad. Be a political adult.
Human beings are invariably flawed. Every person who is capable of moments of greatness is also capable of cruelty or stupidity. The only way to check this is for us to be constantly watching each other — even the best amongst us — and to never be blinded by admirable acts. We will never reach a point where we find the good leader and can sigh, sit back, and relax. If you care about the state of the world, you have to keep watching and pressuring and fighting, forever.
–Johann Hari
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This leads me to believe that Johann Jari is either, a right winger looking to trash Obama, a Hilarycrat
Dead Ender or simply some pundit who's too lazy to read or listen to Obama describe how his presidency will run.
Obama many times has said that he's not going to be the great leader who does all the heavy lifting, rather-
and this important, that we, the voters contribute each according to our abilities. He also says that if the voters feel Obama's wrong on a given issue they should find it their obligation to tell him [an offer I personally took him up on].