Sunday, April 09, 2006

Joe Klein: Pssst! Who's behind the decline of politics? [Consultants.]

The first party to dump the damn consultants and get real will have the votes of many people.

I, for one, am sick to death of marketers (read professional liars) who are alwys so concerned with how everything looks.

Who the hell cares how it looks when its is all a lie anyway?

I am of the opinion that most of these highly paid pimps are nothing but idiots, strung-out on their own sense of self-importance.

Fire them all.

TIME.com -- Joe Klein: Pssst! Who's behind the decline of politics? [Consultants.]:

"On the evening of april 4, 1968, about an hour after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Robert F. Kennedy responded with a powerfully simple speech, which he delivered spontaneously in a black neighborhood of Indianapolis. Nearly 40 years later, Kennedy's words stand as an example of the substance and music of politics in its grandest form and highest purpose�to heal, to educate, to lead. Sadly, his speech also marked the end of an era: the last moments before American public life was overwhelmed by marketing professionals, consultants and pollsters who, with the flaccid acquiescence of the politicians, have robbed public life of much of its romance and vigor."

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