My advice to the Ron Pauls and Dennis Kucinichs is this: If you want to create real change in this country, drop out of politics. Seriously. We do not need any more politicians. We need leaders.

With Martin Luther King Jr.'s day of remembrance approaching, it is good to remember that King was not a politician. He did not seek an elected office or to be a leader. He simply responded to injustice as a human being who firmly believed in peace, liberty, and justice for all. He was a man of integrity who walked his talk and was thus recognized for it. Even when he was talking, his words were poetic, not rhetorical. It was straight from the heart and as clichéd as this has become to say nowadays, he was speaking truth to power. He spoke out against the war in Vietnam and reminded America of her ugly, Imperialist tendencies every chance he got. He ultimately died for it.

How many presidential hopefuls today would be willing to go that far?