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Home Afraid It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

Polly, June 20, 2013

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I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won’t offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.

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I admired Eugene McCarthy’s courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the ‘Washington Post,’ I remained an admirer.

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