Wednesday, June 29, 2005

A question that seriously needed to be asked

Unmitigated Gall

In an editorial from today's WSJ, Peggy Noonan asks the question:

What is wrong with them? This is not a rhetorical question. I think it is unspoken question No. 1 as Americans look at so many of the individuals in our government. What is wrong with them?

As an admittedly devoted fan of Ms. Noonan's prose, of course I'll tell you to read the entire thing. Among other items, covering the range of the political classes, she has a go at Barack Obama's unfortunate-but-inevitable first public attempt at foot-ingestion, as well as Bill Frist's latest.

Sadly, she's doesn't attempt to answer it, but it's still a pertinent question.

My sense is that the answer has its roots in that whole "power corrupts" leitmotif. It's certainly not that they're somehow, by nature, more special than the rest of us. But perhaps they don't know that?

Posted by Patton on 06/29/05 at 11:22 AM
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