Logic VS emotion.....trusting souls made an emotional connection to a supposed alcoholic, seeking help.

We constantly fall for the same thing with government.

Politicians have successfully equated spending cuts to folks starving in the streets.

Without the gullible, we wouldn't have career politicians, Ronco Products, the Clinton Foundation, or $20,000,000,000,000 in Federal debt.

"Those that think they know everything are annoying those of us that have Google." - Dr. D. Edward Wilkinson

Note to self: Never ask an old Fogey how he is doing today.
Revised note to self: Keep it short when someone asks how I am doing.