ideas
Ron Paul on being old and running for President:
Paul,75, rejected the idea that he’s too old to be president. “It’s the ideas that count,” he says. “I endorse young ideas.”
I wrote a post about this that was kind of interesting, but after re-reading it, it doesn’t apply nearly as well to this quote as I had originally intended. The point is, basically, that I don’t think a President’s ideas are his/her most important or relevant quality, given the actual legal powers of the President.
Obviously it’s not good if they have lots of bad ideas, but even that doesn’t necessarily matter if the other branches of the government do their jobs.
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