in American politics. Armchair politicos (Obama/Cain) surround themselves with sycophants and decide they are just so right about everything they write a book. Then to promote their books and by extension themselves they “run for office”. In both cases the presidency. The fevered pitch of ardent supporters who take their messages at face value without bothering to dig into the substance of the position or the experience of the messenger feeds their egos and reinforces their self and world views untill it becomes impossible to see beyond the “cocoon” they and their supporters have created around themselves. At which point arrogance takes over and they become incapable of admitting a very simple and fundamental truth. They were wrong. They don’t have the background, experience and education necessary to effectively lead the free world. They can’t admit to themselves or those foolish enough to be taken in with soaring rhetorically that they don’t actually have the answers. They were just interested in making some statements, driving the debate and ultimately selling some books.