For f***'s sake - you don't pick leaders because of their life-stories and personal quirks. You pick them on the basis of their policies. This is the major flaw with democracy - most people treat politics like another spectator sport, where they basically choose someone at random, or based on some personal inclination towards their personality or looks and then they expect that person to "be good" once they're in power.
This is why we can't have nice things...
This is why we can't have nice things...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw