Nothing like getting hit up side the head with a 2x4 to get your attention!  Too bad the whole world suffered the collateral damage.  He is a good man with a good heart, as was his father, but he lived most of his life in the Washington bubble.  As a beneficiary of that whole system it is very hard to summon sufficient cynicism to see it for what it is until you have been knocked down by it.  And then you can be dismissed: "Oh, he is just bitter!"  He has performed an amazing feat of self redemption.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."