What role does humility play in a race for the White House? Does the average voter care if a candidate is overly cocky and conceited and lacks humility? Do the two very important characteristics of genuineness and authenticity require that humility be detectable? Peo
ple want a president who is strong and confident but there is a point at which strength becomes meanness and confidence becomes arrogance. That line is crossed when humility is tossed aside as unimportant. Here is my prediction. Regardless of the selections Obama and McCain make for vice-presidential running mates, Americans will elect the man who maintains a level of humility that is respectable and appropriate. We admire the quality of humility in our powerful leadership. We want politicians to remember their roots and keep pride in check. We want them to remember the voters who put them in office and to accept their daily responsibilities with humbleness. We are offended when they get puffed- up and make decisions without regard to those whom they represent. We have seen far too many politicians move from nobleness to rottenness, from statesman-like to reprobate-like , and from estimable to egotistical. We fully realize that the man who shows no signs of humility during an election campaign, will not demonstrate humility later in the oval office. Past presidential elections have been won by the candidate who was the most humble. The same will happen this year. Watch the Democrat and Republican nominees from the conventions, through the debates, to the day we all go to the polls. The man who through it all is the most deficient in humility will be the man who loses. The next president of the United States will be . . . the one most humble.
ple want a president who is strong and confident but there is a point at which strength becomes meanness and confidence becomes arrogance. That line is crossed when humility is tossed aside as unimportant. Here is my prediction. Regardless of the selections Obama and McCain make for vice-presidential running mates, Americans will elect the man who maintains a level of humility that is respectable and appropriate. We admire the quality of humility in our powerful leadership. We want politicians to remember their roots and keep pride in check. We want them to remember the voters who put them in office and to accept their daily responsibilities with humbleness. We are offended when they get puffed- up and make decisions without regard to those whom they represent. We have seen far too many politicians move from nobleness to rottenness, from statesman-like to reprobate-like , and from estimable to egotistical. We fully realize that the man who shows no signs of humility during an election campaign, will not demonstrate humility later in the oval office. Past presidential elections have been won by the candidate who was the most humble. The same will happen this year. Watch the Democrat and Republican nominees from the conventions, through the debates, to the day we all go to the polls. The man who through it all is the most deficient in humility will be the man who loses. The next president of the United States will be . . . the one most humble.
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