good advice? or bad?

[Dataspel]

Love your country, do not harm her
Serve others
Honor learning, don't be ignorant
Work hard, try your best
Help your friends and neighbors
Be honest, have integrity
Be self-disciplined
Be plain and simple and honest














Best Regards,
Hu Jintao,
President of the Chinese Communist Party

Data: My only point is, it may benefit us as human beings to
occasionally listen to what people are actually saying,
as opposed to what the media and talking heads tell us....

[TooLBlue]

Do you think Jintao follows that?

[Dataspel]

I think he is trying to make a place for himself in history as a kind
of Confucian wise man. But you don't get to be leader of a large
country by practicing that kind of behavior; he is no doubt as
manipulative and ruthless as the rest of them.

[Nemesis[CotC]]

I think that the advice works well for the common citizen.

Politicians are a class unto themselves, and the opinions they give rarely match their actions.

Machiavelli wrote a little on that subject.