Re: [b] --Are there any politicians you...?

["Martin Coxall" <pseudo.meta@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/1/07, Bod Notbod <bodnotbod@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Are there any politicans that fulfill *all* the following criteria for you?
>
> a) You like their personality
>
> b) You trust them (doesn't have to be entirely, and on everything, but
> in the main)

If you trust a politician, any politician, you're an idiot.

> c) You usually agree with policy-wise

Firstly, (c) is totally irrelevant, since even a novice politician can
express things they don't agree with, believe things they won't
express, believe in multiple contradictory points of view, and change
what they believe at the drop of a hat to suit political realities on
the ground.

As a result of the above, (b) is also irrelevant, as any person that
is any good a politics cannot and should not be trusted.

Which leaves only question (a), to which the answer must be "how can I
know?" since the public image of all politicians is carefully
stage-managed, and therefore the relationship it bears to a
politician's actual personality is impossible to determine.

Martin


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