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An editorial in the Jerusalem Post compared the impeachment in the United States with Israel's current political turmoil and said that "[I]n both nations, people are getting frustrated with political systems that have become obsessed with themselves, and wish that what they see as unseemly distractions will be quickly over."
I think both men need to stop churning out work and think about a kind of settled obscurity in working long and hard on some project that would absorb them completely and passionately, and simply quit producing for public consumption a series of well-financed distractions.
Our presidents and prime ministers have never had such problems, partly because they are almost always Christian Democrats, or at any rate very Catholic, at least in words, and partly because they are almost always ugly and old and shadowed by energetic wives who do not permit them any distractions, or they are widowers pledged to chastity."
He can ill afford the politically motivated distractions posed by Jones and others.
21 El General --During the Spanish Civil War, a dedicated engineer (Buster Keaton) keeps his train running despite the distractions of his gorgeous assistant (Sophia Loren).