July 26, 2004
Imagination
If I remember correctly, our forty-first president neither knew what is a barcode nor did he like broccoli. Forty thought catsup was a vegetable. Forty-two was probably paraphrasing Hamlet when he raised questions about whether “is” is “is” or not. Forty-three reads as little as possible, all the while bragging about his “gentleman Cs.”
The 9/11 Commission went over easy on how bright are our leaders, but did stress that they missed the boat for their lack of imagination. The Commission didn’t comment on whether that might result from a preoccupation with image.
On the other hand, if We, the People, expect an imaginative leadership, we might try ourselves using more imagination, the kind our Founders had in abundance, the kind God used when she created us.