> -----Original Message----- > From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 2:32 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Can we finally all agree? > > Can we all agree that all politicians lie. The republican party can > no more claim to be the moral party than the democrats. Even if Bush > were the most moral man alive, I don't think you can execute the > office of president and still retain all of your morals. There are > too many shady deals that must be done, too much information that > can't/shouldn't be revealed, etc.
This gets back to my primary complaint about the current administration - they're not good at their jobs. They lack the skills the job requires to do it well. Being a politician, like any other career, requires certain skills to do the job well. Lying and compromise may very well be some of those skills. But the good politicians can do this well: they get what they want done while making us think it was all our idea. Even when caught they can make us sympathetic! Clinton had hugely positive approval ratings after he was impeached! Reagan was just as popular after the contra scandal as before! These are good politicians! These guys today fumble. They make false statements publicly when there's tape and video that show they up. They say things they shouldn't then pretend they meant something else. They openly and obviously pander and stuff money into the pockets of cohorts. A good politician will still do all this - at the very least much of it is just plain human nature - but they've a subtlety about it, a skill in doing it that I just don't see in our current leaders. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:198776 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
