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...Gary Hart, again hot for the fray...
...Hart's problems run far deeper than a simple desire to let loose of the bonds of mother and childhood. Anyone who has seen the infamous National Enquirer photos of Rice sitting on Hart's lap and a clearly blasted Hart playing the congas in a nightclub cannot have come away thinking they were looking at a happy or stable...
...back. Some have suggested that Hart must have a Messiah complex and that's why he's re-entered the race. True enough, Hart said that the main reason he's going again unto the breach is that he has "a sense of new direction and a set of new ideas that our country needs that no one else represents." No one else, he said, has filled the gaping hole in the political landscape left by his absence...
...Hart's megalomonia probably is slightly less divine, though. He's too existential to think he--or anyone else--is a messiah. Instead, he seems to fancy himself some latter-day "Great Legislator." Many philosophers--all of whom Hart has read--spend a great deal of time waxing eloquent about the need of a people for such a visionary and just man to set down laws for them and to lead them to the promised land of social harmony and peace. Hart clearly thinks himself a neo-liberal, technocratic Moses...
...Indeed, Hart said Tuesday that if he could choose his epitaph, it would be, "He educated his people." He wasn't talking about the need to spend more money on the public school system. He was referring to how "the President himself must become the nation's first teacher to help our people understand some very tough problems and how together we can solve them." Such are noble sentiments, no doubt. Before Gary Hart can teach us anything, though, he needs to learn a few lessons himself...