Dear Anita,
I realize you may not be used to having your quotes and speeches passed around the Internet to be ridiculed and scrutinized, but allow me to offer you some free and unsolicited advice. It’s never a good idea to pick a polarizing figure from history as a leader with whom you look up to, even if done so ironically. You’re setting yourself up for a lot of second-guessing and that’s not the right play, at least not politically. As a favor to you, I went ahead a compiled a list of people who elicit nothing but a positive response. In the future, please use only these names when mentioning policies and ideologies you look up to. These are the “safe names”, if you will.
- Ghandi
- MLK
- Jesus
- Mother Theresa
- That guy from Community and The Soup
- Jackie Robinson
- Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, George Washington
- Pretty much any name on that Declaration of Independence will work. We love us some forefathers.
- Albert Einstein
- Joel McHale, that’s it. His name is Joel McHaleStick to those, and everything else will be cream cheese. If you have any questions, I went ahead and provided my phone number to your staff, so please feel free to call me at any time.
Thank you,
1 Happy St
