Of politicians and moral courage [VIDEO]

JERUSALEM POST
by Caroline Glick
September 11, 2014

Barack Obama cannot successfully lead the war on terror because he is not a leader. He is a politician.

Leaders are not elected.Politicians are elected. Their election in turn provides politicians with the opportunity to become leaders.You don’t become a leader by telling people what they want to hear, although doing so certainly helps to you get elected. A politician becomes a leader by telling people what they don’t want to hear.

If they are lucky, politicians will never have to become leaders. They will serve in times of peace and plenty, when it’s possible to pretend away the hard facts of the human condition. And they can leave office beloved for letting people believe that the world is the Elysian Fields. Certainly this has been the case for many American politicians since the end of World War II……

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http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Column-One-Of-politicians-and-moral-courage-375120

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