Learning from other people’s mistakes

Obama is showing a great deal of wisdom with his public openness in dealing with the Daschle controversy. A wise man carefully monitors the actions of foolish people and does everything to avoid acting in such ways. When you get advice from your parents, it’s usually bred out of their own past screw ups. Ask them about it. Make them give you a full story and you may see why your parents are wiser than you. You don’t want to wind up repeating an embarassment with irreversable consequences. As far as the criticism of Obama as pretentious, yes. All politicians are pretentious. They’re politicians. At least Obama has shown honesty and a lack of foolhardy self-righteousness. I hate that I’m sticking up for a politician, but how often do you hear a politician say “I screwed up” before it became a visible problem. Not often at all.