Posted by
JP on Friday, September 26, 2008 1:12:27 AM
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by John Mark Reynolds [author, academic]
On the Need to Bluff
Good campaigners rely on “talking points.” That drives those of us
with academic backgrounds crazy. We hear the same message day-after-day
and want more. Sadly, if the candidate is foolish enough to give us
more, he or she will display the fact that nobody knows much about
everything. He or she will display some ignorance or shallow ideas and
then the other side will pounce.
Sad to say, but so it has been and so it ever shall be. There is no
reason to think McCain, Obama, Palin, and Biden are not smart enough to
do the job. Unless they plan dispensing with a cabinet or have shown
they will not listen to their aides, they will get the knowledge they
need to govern. For some reason in our republic, however, we like the
impression that our candidates are all knowing. [more @
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