Disagree.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
It takes tact and diplomacy.
It takes patience.
It takes compromise.
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John Adams was brilliant.  Alienated every potential political ally.  Couldn't get anything done.
Martin Van Buren.  Ditto.
Jimmy Carter. Ditto.
John Kennedy. Ditto.
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LBJ was one of the most miserable human beings ever to live, yet he got the VRA passed.
Louis St. Laurent knew how to get people to work together.
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Angela Merkel is intellectually sparklingly brilliant.
She is also relentlessly, deliberately, dull.
That is how she gets things done.
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Canada would not have the Charter of Rights if it were not for the geniality, patience, perseverance, sense of humour, intellectual brilliance, and dogged determination of Allan Blakeney.  All night he cajoled the other premiers, and refused to let the meeting break up.  And in the morning, Pierre Trudeau's Charter had been saved.
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In Toronto, these people couldn't find a way to work together and get it done.
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Tragedy.