Politico Conceit
In her latest Wall Street Journal editorial, Peggy Noonan asks, Why are our politicians so full of themselves? She is speaking rhetorically, right? Surely this is not a recent revelation for Ms. Peggy "I wrote speeches for a President" Noonan. Well, in case she is serious - they are politicians because they are so full of themselves. Seriously, what kind of sane, modest, moral human-being would choose to become a politician? It takes a serious genetic flaw to seek a position from which one can exercise POWER over other persons. I'm talking something well beyond your everyday bioaccumulated-lead-poisoning from generations of ingesting paint chips. Politicos are freaks of nature that comparatively make Michael Jackson seem human. In essence, the term "public" service is classic doublespeak - more appropriately, it is self-service and nothing more.
posted by thebokononist at 9:08 PM
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Why is it that you never hear of anybody having been a speach writer for any president besides Nixon? William Buckley, Peggy Noonan, and Ben Stein were all Nixon speach writers. I've never heard anybody refer to himself as a former Reagan or Clinton speach writer.
Don't forget about David Frum. He wrote the famous "axis of evil" line for W's 2002 state of the union speech (and the dashboard warning light thing) and has been famous for it ever since. When he was out flogging one of his books a while back that's all the interviewers wanted to talk about.
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