well, i will tell you that i think that empathy is one of the most important characteristics in a leader, and when i am looking at the four guys, lincoln who may have been born wit, and teddy roosevelt developed it as a a political leader after he went into the tenements as a police commissioner in the slums, and franklin roosevelt with polio was more kind hearted to people whom fate dealt a unkind hand, and so em pathy is a naturalnes to deal with people who have gone through the tragedy and not only today with the carolinas, but at the point when florence was about to the come upon us, and he talked about the problems in maria and said that he had done it a-plus, and how much better to say, we didn t do as well as we wished we had, but too many died, and we will do better. anybody who acknowledges the errors will grow as a leader, and that is the self-refleck thun shun that we need. you have done so many books and study of lincoln and fdr and