From: Adam Flinton 

Gene McAloon wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 23:00:58 -0400, "Geo."
 wrote:
>
>
>>"Gene McAloon"  wrote in message
>>news:4pmme0t9k129utbhjbkg40mon08keoutal{at}4ax.com...
>>
>>
>>>It means that 20% of the people there had no balls at all if
they were taken
>>
>>in
>>
>>>by that phony nincompoop. A classic example of a dumb businessman getting
>>
>>into
>>
>>>politics and making an utter ass of himself in the process. It
is incredible
>>>that he was able to hoodwink anyone at all.
>>
>>The only people who were hoodwinked were the ones who voted for the
>>politicians. You finally had a real choice and all you could do was play
party
>>line out of fear that your one vote might actually make a difference..
>>
>>Geo.
>>
>
> It is by politics that we run this democracy of ours and it is politicians
who
> do that politicking. It is bad enough that some of them do such a lousy job
of
> it without having some nincompoop of businessman trying to do a job for which
he
> has no qualifications whatsoever.

How many politicians have a qualification in politics? Is there a MPA
(Master of Political Administration) qual that pols can get? Oddly being a
pol is something for which there are no formal barriers...

Adam

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