Heaven/Earth/What Lies Betwixt the Ears

We can never know with certainty what motivates a politician. And whatever opinions that we do have pertaining to it are largely based upon whether or not we like/support that person. People who like Obama, for instance, say that his motivation for wanting a long-term debt "solution" was to help the economy and those who don't like him say that he was driven by politics (not that these two goals are always/necessarily mutually exclusive, mind you).....................................................................................................And it has ALWAYS been this way. Just take Mitt Romney's father, George, like his son, a moderate northern Republican Governor. The elder Romney (again, like his son) was a Mormon, and a Mormon during a time when the church actively discriminated against black people. But this same individual also marched with Martin Luther King and advocated for civil rights. So, was he putting a stick in the eye of the Mormon elders by doing this and was he sincere in his quest to secure these civil rights , OR was he simply trying to score political points? I have absolutely no idea and I suspect that I never will.