Tom’s Big Picture

And a Bill Clinton-class political tactician.  This man is mesmerizing to watch.  He’s an ess-oh-bee as well, but at least he’s our ess-oh-bee, right?  The South continues to produce the world’s best bs’ers, from lawyers to politicians to novelists:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdsnpucXq6I

Whereas McCain and Giuliani are truly scary, Huck would be another Dubya-class mediocrity.  Go Huckabee!

It frustrates me that God seems to give out these gifts of charisma and political skill to completely mediocre leaders (the naturalist-Calvinist in me points out that those who possess these gifts are so successful at manipulating their fellow human beings at early ages that no real character development ever takes place, leaving a well-spoken sociopath with no core principles).

Ron Paul is the best of the bunch as a man, but doesn’t exactly have the communication skill of a master like Huckabee.  I sympathize with Paul, having at many times experienced the frustration of too many ideas pouring out of the brain too fast, which end up as abbreviated and punctuated statements rather than persuasive speech.  Hopefully these homeschool kids and their classical curriculums with capstones in rhetoric can fill the statesman gap.  Emotion, not data, moves the voter.