Futility of Criticism" Take, for example , the famous quarrel between Theodore Roosevelt and President Taft - a quarrel that split the republican Party, put Woodrow Wilson in the White House, and wrote bold, luminous lines across the First World War and altered the flow of history. When Roosevelt stepped out of the White house in 1908, he supported Taft , who was elected President. Then Roosevelt went off to Africa to shoot lions. When he returned he exploded. He denounced Taft for his conservatism, tried to secure the nomination for a third term himself, formed the Bull Moose party, and all but demolished the G.O.P. In the election that followed , William Howard Taft and the Republican party carried only two - states- Vermont and Utah. The most disastrous defeat the party ever known.
Roosevelt blamed Taft, but did President Taft blame himself? Of course not, With tears in his eyes, Taft said: 'I don't see how i could have done any differently from what i have."
Who was to blame? Roosevelt or Taft? Frankly, i don't know and i don't care. The point I am trying to make is that all of Roosevelt's criticism didn't persuade Taft that he was wrong. It merely made Taft strive to justify himself and to reiterate with tears in his eyes: " I don't see how I could have done any differently from what i have'. (-Dale Carnegie-)
Election time in the Philippines is near, every candidate have their own platforms which they believe in . Majority of us don't personally know them and what they are or will be capable of doing. It's always the game of trial and error ,selecting the less evil or just name game. Whoever we wanted to rule , lets go out and exercise our right of suffrage. BUT whoever reigns no no for criticism for it is futile.
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