I read Marueen Dowd's column in the New York Times today and I was surprised with how accurately she described the Jim Gibson I know. It was uncanny. She has never met him and was describing some national politicians yet there he is in her description below:
T. S. Eliot wrote about when memory mixes with desire. Politicians get in trouble when desire nixes memory.
They know they are misrepresenting an experience, but can’t help themselves. Their desire to be the person they describe is too overpowering.
Politicians are actors trapped in the same part, and some occasionally feel the need to punch up the script. They are salesmen engaged in the hard sell, and some occasionally get carried away.
Read the rest of her column here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/opinion/23dowd.html?hp
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