blind love

Thinking about people doing things they feel stupid (and embarrassed) about later, made me think of Blind Ambition, and made me think next of "blind love"...

Blind Ambition was the name of a book written by John Dean, of the Nixon administration. Dean wrote the book about his own experiences during the events encompassed in what we called
Watergate.

The title of that book sums up the author's predicament, for which he blamed no one but himself.
blind ambition
It's like -- you don't see that you're doing wrong, because you want to
either
go to the top
or
achieve the high goals of your president.

Really, when you think about it that way, the crimes & misdemeanors of today's wall street crowd -- the "banksters," some call them -- are all for the simple goal of

their personal stratospheric Wealth

...
at least the Nixon crowd did the stuff they did for a Goal
of serving their president -- and, of course, they thought -- the country ...
(yikes -- Somebody, call Charles Colson! - we got somebody worse! -- seriously, just kidding...)

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There's a theory that the Personality of a Politician / Would-Be Leader includes
1) a love for people
and
2) a need to be loved by people

...like a singer or dancer or actor, etc. -- the candidate meets the cheers of the crowd as something he loves, craves, needs, and never wants to lose...

on the
flip side
of that, the candidate greets, smiles, shakes hands, hugs, laughs, and rubs-shoulders-generally with the crowds because he Loves Those People.

Even his opposition -- the people who compete against him, and sometimes call him names -- he loves them, TOO, damn it--he can't help himself...!

That's just a trait that -- if a person has it, they have it -- like being left-handed...

And if a person's organization and discipline of their sexual feelings is not strong -- if sex and love overlap and mix in -- and if the person has any history-or-habit of casual physical promiscuity, it's a pretty simple recipe (easy-bake!) for making some silly mistakes.

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I know one thing, if I live to be a thousand years old,
and I NEVER
have to read or hear
about the sex life or romantic life of ANY
politician or other public figure,
it'll-be-too-soon!

...

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