The Measure of a Man

Sometimes you read something that says so completely and effectively what you’re thinking, that you can’t improve on it. Such was the case this morning when I read Captain Ed’s take on the WaPo story re: Obama’s “youthful indiscretions.”

10 Responses to “The Measure of a Man”

1. Paul Silver says:

   January 3, 2007 at 6:08 am

   Good judgement comes from experience, Experience comes from bad judgement

   I am delighted that personal affairs are becoming less relevant to determining who has the best judgement to be a leader. What does a latex fetish have to do with balancing the budget?
2. Michael van der Galien says:

   January 3, 2007 at 6:22 am

   LOL I initially thought that you, Paul, published this post. Then I saw that you commented on it (in my mind ‘as well’)…

   Anyway, I agree Pete, great post over at Ed Morrissey’s place. Posts like this show why Ed is respected by so many people, independent of whether or not those people agree with his politics.

   Paul:

   Good judgement comes from experience, Experience comes from bad judgement

   Great quote. From your own, or are you quoting someone else?

   I am delighted that personal affairs are becoming less relevant to determining who has the best judgement to be a leader. What does a latex fetish have to do with balancing the budget?

   Exactly. Whether or not Obama used drugs when he was 20 years younger is completely irrelevant.
3. Paul Silver says:

   January 3, 2007 at 6:54 am

   Good judgement comes from experience, Experience comes from bad judgement

   Perhaps Mark Twain?
4. Michael van der Galien says:

   January 3, 2007 at 6:59 am

   I don’t know, let me google it.

   They seem to call it Higdon’s Law.

   or… Jim Horning

   Or… Unknown???? From that last one:
   “Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning
   Quotations by unknown authors”

   Or Rita Mae?

   Indeed Rita Mae Brown??

   I G.I.V.E. U.P.
5. Michael van der Galien says:

   January 3, 2007 at 7:01 am

   I googled it. Seems to be some confusion about it, although it might have been from Rita Mae Brown.

   Then.. why is it called hornig’s law or something?
6. Paul Silver says:

   January 3, 2007 at 7:29 am

   Rita Mae Brown.
   Michael, you know more about US culture than those of us raise here.
   You are sort of TMV version of De Tocqueville.
7. Kim Ritter says:

   January 3, 2007 at 7:31 am

   Yes, Captain Ed is correct. It is past time to move beyond this test of a man’s fitness for office. Now if we could move beyond the factors of race, sex and religion as criteria, we might be on our way to making sensible voting choices.

   Drug use is something the nation decided was irrelevant when they twice voted in an ex-alcholic, coke abuser who turned his life around at 40. Wouldn’t it be a little hypocritical to care about it with Obama???
8. SteveK says:

   January 3, 2007 at 8:01 am

   Good judgement comes from experience, Experience comes from bad judgement

   Perhaps Mark Twain?

   And then again maybe it was Kilgore Trout… (g)
9. Michael van der Galien says:

   January 3, 2007 at 8:24 am

   Paul, I didn’t know obviously – google provides the answers to a lot of questions;)
10. Holly in Cincinnati says:

    January 3, 2007 at 11:14 am

    Hmm, I should be the resident expert on Rita Mae Brown!