All In a Government Day’s Work
There’s a certain zeitgeist that conspires to land government embarrassments on the same day’s newspaper pages and yesterday was one of those. We have a mostly well-intentioned government, but sometimes its pants are around its ankles when the lights go on.
First, our president was caught scripting another ‘spontaneous event,’ this one a tele-conference with troops on active duty in Iraq. Makes me wonder who’s running the show in the White House and if there's a competition for dumb idea of the day. You’d think that, after the umpteenth time caught at such shenanigans, it would be a no-no, but some lessons are learned harder than others. This time it’s more an embarrassment than anything sinister, but there it is, our president supposedly having a spontaneous tele-chat with the troops in Iraq. Rattling off one presidential euphemism after another, each is enthusiastically answered by a soldier. Turns out each smiling respondent was picked for the duty and told how to reply.
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