Can the President-Elect do it?--
Good government consists in winning the loyalty of the PEOPLE NEARBY and attracting the PEOPLE FAR AWAY. [emphasis mine] (Analects 500 B.C.)
Clever, those Chinese ... but, Oh, how woefully far away we have strayed from that ancient ideal over the last eight years.
For everyone called to the government of nations and empires [that's us], there are nine cardinal directions to be attended to... (Ibid.)
The first and most important cardinal direction, not surprisingly for Confucius, was cardinal virtue:
Cultivating his personal conduct. (Ibid.)
So far, of ALL the potential leaders of this American Empire, Barack Obama has done it best. Kung Fu Tzu would have voted for him.
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