Inspiration IS LEADERSHIP. Rallying people to help their fellow citizens so they might improve their lives and the lives of the less fortunate, IS LEADERSHIP. Having the intelligence and imagination to foresee trouble and avoid, or defuse it, those are qualities above those of experience that doesn’t inform good judgment.
What I find baffling, is that the very same people who decry inspiration and oratory and not being of value, who scoff at someone who was a “community organizer”, are people of the Christian faith. Faith IS an act of imagination! If you can’t imagine a world where God cares and sent his son to die for your sins, you really can’t be faithful, can you? There is, I think, I hope, in every single person of faith, the potential for imagination beyond that of fear. An ability to imagine that which is better. If you can’t imagine it, you’ll never get there, and if you’re not inspired, you can’t imagine it.
I know the value of imagination, judgement, and intelligence.
I’m voting for the smartest guy running.
Bravo! (Full essay here.)
(Hat tip: Kevin Schofield)
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