tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post4623659488889832066..comments2023-10-03T11:41:21.191+01:00Comments on The Truth About Lies: #612Jim Murdochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-71837783511849177272016-01-21T14:49:17.776+00:002016-01-21T14:49:17.776+00:00Jim, love that expression, "the cut of his ji...<b>Jim</b>, love that expression, "the cut of his jib." - Had to look it up. Now I feel smart enough to run for office.Kasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05233330248952156754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-55423480853522623202016-01-20T22:58:03.064+00:002016-01-20T22:58:03.064+00:00Politics is a strange world, Kass. It certainly at...Politics is a strange world, <b>Kass</b>. It certainly attracts strange people but it’s just a job like any other job. You’d think. I’ve sat on both sides of the interview desk and know full well that the best qualified person doesn’t always get the job. One of the reasons the wrong people are hired is the wrong people do the hiring. In the case of politicians it’s the public who get to do the hiring and can you think of a less qualified bunch of people to hire anyone? What do we know about government? The <i>idea</i> of democracy is a good one but I’m not sure about it in practice. The simple fact is that Donald Trump <i>could</i> conceivably be elected president and that is a scary prospect. Now if he had to submit a résumé and be interviewed by, say, members of the Supreme Court, a few top bankers and a couple of university professors then that’d be a different matter. One of the reasons Labour didn’t get in in England last year was because the public couldn’t see Ed Milliband as Prime Minister. It had nothing to do with his (or, more importantly, his party’s) abilities. They just didn’t like the cut of his jib and that’s no way to run a country.Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-55911437487774078382016-01-20T20:34:22.197+00:002016-01-20T20:34:22.197+00:00Oh dear, we're all so pathetic (not to be take...Oh dear, we're all so pathetic (not to be taken too seriously since I just watched a video of Sarah Palin endorsing Donald Trump).Kasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05233330248952156754noreply@blogger.com