Leadership

This campaign has become quite the sorry little joke. And not the funny kind. It's kind of pathetic and sad, really.

And the same people who have brought this to you - each of the respective Presidential campaigns, the press, the activists, and too many citizens who have gone right along - have the gaul to say, "This is why I deserve to be able to run your life."

What remarkable bullshit.

There is nothing real being said, right now, during this election. This election could have been staged by my students. In fact, it is everyday.

And how incredibly sad that adults would act like this and pretend that it is some kind of example for mine or anyone's children. How sad that we would act like this at all.

What this election has taught me is that I will have to teach my own children that there is no way on God's green earth that they can ever look to such people for examples of what it means to be good or responsible or anything of the sort. Because what a remarkably low standard those in and who aspire to be a part of the political class set.

They will look to their father and their mother, which reaffirms for me the enormous responsibility of parenthood. They will look to their teachers. They will look to the most responsible people they encounter. And, all too often and sadly, they will look to less responsible people.

But, ultimately, they will look to themselves.

And my children, at least, will learn to look to themselves to take responsibility for their lives long before they look to anyone in political circles.

Because what a sad and sorry standard the political world offers, right now. Perhaps it always has. In which case, perhaps all of us should have always looked elsewhere for guidance.

I looked to my family and my teachers.

Thank goodness, this election season, my children have a better alternative. Because those who are supposed to offer the kind of example that children and citizens are supposed to be able to trust, as their most fundamental responsibility, have badly fallen down on the job.

How sad that this is what political folks call leadership.

How lucky for each of us that politics is not where real leadership takes place in life.