[lit-ideas] Re: a suggestion for improving the political system
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:39:28 -0500
But also a recognition that the staff of a Prez is sometimes more
important than the Prez, and so should be held up to scrutiny before the
election.
Agreed. In fact, no one man could begin to be knowledgeable about most of
what comes under the purview of a President. What a President is most
knowledgeable about is, I would submit, electioneering. A President has
little awareness of what's going on in the various departments of
government -- governance it's mostly about department heads -- especially if
the opposition is weak. And so I agree with Eric that that's the real ball
game. But, of course, his hyperbolic solution has as much chance of success
and I do winning the lottery. From my perspective one can only watch the
candidates and try to determine what kind of people are closest to him --
those who will be bringing him names of possible department heads. Surely
nothing Bush did as President should be surprising after learning he had
appointed Cheney to advise him of whom to put forward as Vice President --
it all fell together from that moment. I don't have a lot of confidence in
brilliance -- though I'd like my President to be able to be fluent in his
native tongue, but she need not be eloquent. Who does she kick around
with? -- that's far more telling of how his administration will govern. It
all comes down to gut feelings, I'm afraid.
Mike Geary
Memphis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Yost" <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 12:55 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: a suggestion for improving the political system
>>In other words, a free press that does its job.
In part. > If President Buddha's administration is being staffed by fire
demons and radioactive zombies, no amount of diamond sutras will avail us.
E
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