ACTION MATTERS MOST IN PUBLIC SERVICE

Morality of a candidate is always an issue during election time, most of the political pundits and intelligent voters like that their would be leaders must be good examples in the community, someone that they can be proud of and someone that the vast majority if not the whole wide world would look up to. Of course I concur to their ideals of having leaders with morality and good examples, but to me public service is not precisely dominated by moralists for there are public servants in history who have question marks in their morals but made a great difference in their storied careers in public service.

Nelson Mandela considered as the greatest South African president and considered as the "Father of the Nation" for making South Africa free from apartheid was a noted philanderer yet he was called by every South African as "Madiba" or "Father of the Nation" for saving South Africa from racial division and made South Africa the leading economic power of the African continent known otherwise as the "Black Continent".

Ronald Wilson Reagan the 40th president of the United States of America was the first divorcee president yet he was instrumental in the victory of democracy over communism in the "Cold War" between the Communist countries and the democratic countries headed by America. Reagan was also responsible in the stalling of the economic crisis faced by America at that time being left by his predecessor by using his economic solution called REAGANOMICS.

Mikhail Gorbachev the last supreme leader of the defunct Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was an atheist, but he was responsible for reforms in the communist government of the U.S.S.R. through his GLASNOST and PERESTROIKA program which led to a power struggle between him and the communist hardliners which eventually divided and even defaced the former Soviet Republics from the face of the globe.

These examples would make me think that in the cases of the above-named illustrious leaders who would be long remembered in the annals of history as great people who pivoted their respective countries to great difference, morality would not and will not ever be an issue. To me the ability of a candidate to deliver the basic goods and services to his constituents and to make a great difference in public service matter. However, I am not insisting that our leaders can be immoral as long as they can effectively serve the people for it is still my dream to have a perfect leader and that is a leader who has the ability to really effectively serve the people and at the same time a leader who can be considered as a good example to the people as can be gleaned from his morality.