Is This The Best We Can Do?

Having produced a political system that is so miserable it's likely to deter well-balanced people with integrity, and one in which the most important skills involve raising money and looking good on TV, we shouldn't be surprised if we wind up with a lot of people who want the jobs out of a narcissistic desire for importance, or a corrupt desire for power and spoils, and whose chief skills involve getting people to donate cash to their campaigns while ... Full Story »

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Valliappa Lakshmanan
1.4
by Valliappa Lakshmanan - Oct. 28, 2008

This is a vacuous article -- the author snarks (on Obama and McCain: "Out of a nation of 300 million, this is the best we can do?") but fails to state persuasively what exactly it is about these men that he doesn't like. Or what it is about the current Tennessee governor that would make him a better candidate.

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