Hello, gentle blog reader,
I recently read that Barack Obama’s a fan of Reinhold Niebuhr. Clueless as to who he is, I did a little research and discovered that John Mcain had “in his volume, “Hard Call,” celebrated Niebuhr as a paragon of clarity about the costs of a “good” war”:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Niebuhr
It’s great that we’re about to have an intellectual in the White House again. I, for one, don’t fully comprehend the philosophical underpinnings (especially the Aristotelian bits) behind Niebuhr’s Christian Realism, but I appreciate the Serenity Prayer, which is often ascribed to him:
”God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.”
(And I bet, George W. Bush, who has battled with alcoholism, does too.)
Bobbi
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