Word: ineptness
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...Clinton was feted, two transition-team lawyers flew to Connecticut to interview Baird's immigration lawyer, Belote. They emerged disturbed by what one lawyer called "substantial discrepancies" between Baird's testimony and Belote's logs and diaries. Upset by his depiction in the media as an inept attorney, Belote provided documentation that some Senators believe contradicts Baird's testimony. While Baird testified that her husband contacted Belote upon hiring the Peruvians in July 1990, Belote's documents indicate that Gewirtz did not contact Belote's firm until four months later. Moreover, according to a lawyer familiar with the session, Belote...
...student labor unions do so less out of commitment to its agenda than in protest against the failures and foibles of the P.L.O. Palestinians are not only disillusioned by the organization's inability to bring them any closer to the dream of independence but also consider it to be inept and corrupt. Kassem estimates that 30% of Hamas supporters are true believers, while the remaining 10% to 15% are simply disenchanted with the P.L.O. Says he: "It is too early to say that there is a genuine Islamic revolution among the Palestinians...
Experience suggests a little caution in proclaiming new days -- or mornings -- in America. The electorate turned against Bush not so much because he was conservative but because he was perceived as inept. Some abandoned him because they did not see him as a good conservative. Bill Clinton, meanwhile, offered a program that was at least half conservative. He promised (threatened?) massive federal intervention and spending, but also restructuring and limiting government, curbing bureaucracy, reforming welfare, strengthening individual responsibility. Many conservatives, this writer included, saw a chance -- just a chance -- that Clinton might carry out conservative policies that a re- elected...
...they look for ways to undermine the one area where Bush's reputation remained strong. In the final debate, Perot lobbed a bombshell -- with no supporting evidence -- claiming Bush had given Saddam a secret green light to seize the northern part of Kuwait. Al Gore charges that Bush's inept policy before the invasion "not only struck the match" that ignited the war but also "poured gasoline on the flames...
...past. There is no central clearinghouse of lies, no impartial scorekeeper deciding on the truth or falsity of public statements. Further complicating matters, successful lies, by definition, go undetected. If this truly is a time of unprecedented public lying, then it is also a time of remarkably inept liars, or of liars who don't seem to care if they are caught...