I know that I'm headed in a different direction with this, but quite frankly there are few in politics that I admire.
I admire a now long dead preacher who made a trip to the local hospital every day, and visited every room..sometimes taking all day. The same man refused a raise in pay, and in the late 1980s was making $600.00 a month.
I admire my long dead grandmother, who lived 97 years, the last 55 in a house with no indoor plumbing and a wood cookstove, and who still fed the hogs, chickens and cows at 5:00 am well into her 80's....and never complained.
I admire my Dad who suffered greatly all his short life from injuries he suffered in WWII, but never mentioned a battle, and never thought he did enough.
I admire my wife, who spends 30 hours a week keeping other people's infants at a daycare, and who lavished love on them they don't get from their own mama, and who remembers the names of kids she loved that way 20 or more years ago.
I could go on...but sometimes I think we admire the wrong people when we admire sports stars, politicians and actors. The people around us who make our lives liveable are much more admirable.
Ben