{"id":446,"date":"2007-07-03T15:10:22","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T15:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jwalking\/2007\/07\/in-search-of-a-leader.html"},"modified":"2007-07-03T15:10:22","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T15:10:22","slug":"in-search-of-a-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jwalking\/2007\/07\/in-search-of-a-leader.html","title":{"rendered":"In search of a leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;how discouraging and depressing is virtually everything political these days? I say &#8220;virtually&#8221; instead of &#8220;totally&#8221; out of a wee bit of optimism.<br \/>\nI look at Bush and Pelosi and Cheney and Reid and at virtually everyone else and I wonder if there is actually a leader to be found. Yuck.<br \/>\nI hope that some of our elected officials might read the Constitution or the Declaration or the Federalist Papers or something that might inspire them to actually lead instead of engaging in this pathetic exercise of beating the crap out of one another while trying to claim the rhetorical high ground in hopes of persuading the American people that they are, in fact, leaders.<br \/>\nThrow them all out. All of them. Yuck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;how discouraging and depressing is virtually everything political these days? I say &#8220;virtually&#8221; instead of &#8220;totally&#8221; out of a wee bit of optimism. I look at Bush and Pelosi and Cheney and Reid and at virtually everyone else and I wonder if there is actually a leader to be found. Yuck. 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