What Voters Want: Competence

One time, years ago, the veteran Baltimore newspaperman, H.L. Mencken, was checking copy coming in from the night editor and sighing at the rising number of errors he was noticing, errors of fact but also of syntax, and even some idioms that didn't sound quite right. He shook his head and said, as much to himself as to the editor at his side: "The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology." Full Story »

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Pete Lund
2.4
by Pete Lund - Oct. 1, 2008

Will loves to interpret the world to meet his political agenda. Voters crave competency? In other words it has nothing to do with voters disagreeing with U.S. policy. If only we could make those trains run ont time.

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