Of Men and Assassinations...

Just returned from a short jaunt to see some very good friends of mine in Texas this past weekend. As it turns out it also provided me a visit to the location of the famed pigeon-shoot of President John F Kennedy. I will refrain from a long depiction of the insurmountable pieces of evidence that prove we had indeed experienced a coup d'etat in the United States on that fateful day in 1963 and will instead touch very briefly on something that my friend expressed to me about politicians today (ala President Kennedy)

As I vented to him my sadness and frustration in the quality of the persons we have to choose from in todays elections and how I'd wished we could have someone who could succeed in pulling us all back together he reminded me that in the long and tenuous past of American politics there have been many many potent figures. None of these individuals up to and including Mr. Kennedy had had to live under the constant scrutiny of technology such as had our recent leaders.
Was Thomas Jefferson a saint? Did every utterance from the mouth of Abraham Lincoln extrude the complete truth?

We know so much more, so much more quickly that there is virtually no place for our politicians to hide. And while I'm not for them hiding things, it also does not allow them the flexibility to "make the sausage". We need to choose politicians who have the skills to "do the job" and scrutinize their character less according to my friend. I agree to an extent. No one is perfect and all of us have our "skeletons in the closet" I'd just like to see more Jeffersonian results and maybe I'd be able to overlook the occasional "cigar"