October 10, 2008
Decisions
Memo to: Joe Sixpack
Subject: Decisions, decisions
Your name is often mentioned on the Straight Talk Express and along the campaign trail as perhaps an authority on the forthcoming presidential election. As I am sure you want to live up to that reputation and to be as well-informed as possible before making your choice, may I share these thoughts for your consideration.
It was once said of someone who was an outstanding international leader and one of our country’s closest friends and allies that he “brought the wisdom to walk in the path of honor, the courage to follow his convictions, and an abiding compassion for others enriched all by the nobility of his spirit and the vision to which he devoted his life.”
He once offered some advice for all of us that I believe is altogether useful at times like these and that you, as well, may find of some value: “We must shun any continuance of vilification of others,” he said, “because that would diminish the democratic process (and) give free rein to ignorance… Perhaps what we should resist most of all is the tendency to make quick, emotional and superficial judgments on others — from a position different from theirs and without any responsible or realistic examination of their actions or decisions taken in the course of fulfilling their duties.”
As I know that democracy is dear to your heart and that your country always comes first as a model for this, you will surely want to know, as well, that this leader was a champion for and actual achiever of democracy by altogether persuasive and peaceful means in, of all places, the Middle East. Perhaps, by the way, you may want to know his name. It was Hussein, King Hussein I of Jordan.
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