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In reply to the discussion: Hmmm? I wonder why people chose to leave off this part of Michael's interview [View all]calimary
(90,600 posts)At a time when we ALL need to be united and shoulder-to-shoulder against the common enemy on the so-called "right", no less. It's so disconcerting when it appears some of us seem to be confused as to who the real adversary is.
And let's all stop and imagine where we'd be under a "president" romney and vice president ryan. Would you be happy THEN???????? How 'bout THOSE Supreme Court nominees then, 'eh?
I'm not waiting around for "Mr. or Ms. Right" for the White House. If you hold out for perfect and don't take a chance on the merely good, you'll be waiting FOREVER. There IS NO "PERFECT," folks! Get used to it.
It reminds me of this movie called "The Competition" - starring Richard Dreyfuss, Amy Irving, and Lee Remick. I think it's a 1980 release. Dreyfuss and Irving played young piano prodigies involved in a major international concert-pianists' competition. Lee Remick was Irving's piano teacher and mentor. There's the inevitable romance and the inevitable complications, and (SPOILER ALERT) Amy Irving wins, throwing her love affair with Dreyfuss into disarray, and there's a scene showing her moping about it all, in a side room outside of a big party and reception for the winner (her) and the first runner-up (him). Lee Remick approaches her to try to help her snap out of it and go join the party. At one point she tells her unhappy young protege (paraphrasing here): "It's going to take Nature another 100 years to evolve the kind of man YOU have in mind. Until then, GET OUT THERE AND DANCE WITH WHAT THERE IS!"
Brothers and Sisters, There IS NO PERFECT. I guarantee you, even Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren would eventually fall short with some of these folks. GUARANTEED. It's just always SO much more important to be all about the fault-finding and the criticizing and the nit-picking! For Pete's Sake, we already have an entire political enemy-party and powerful oppositional infrastructure in place to do that. Why are some of us so eager to help shore up the enemy and further THEIR agenda (of weakening and destroying our side) instead of shoring up and furthering OUR OWN???