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...sham, of course. But we can learn a lot from the con jobs our public servants deploy, and so it is with this new fad of listening. For Mrs. Clinton--and now we really are being fair--is not the only politician who is lending us her ears. "Listening" has become mandatory in a state-of-the-art campaign, regardless of the candidate's party or ideology. As he was preparing his campaign, George W. Bush made clear he wasn't going to be a chatterbox, either. "I need to go out and listen to what people have...
Advocates of "listening" will of course defend it as a democratic advance--a sign that the politician has become an exquisitely tuned instrument, vibrating to every pulse that flutters up from his or her constituency. This might be nice if it were true, but again Mrs. Clinton's spokesman gave the game away. "The listening is the message," he said. What matters, in other words, isn't the listening. What matters is that people see you as you pretend to listen. This is not the good-faith tactic of a candidate in a democracy. In an illuminating coincidence, Hillary Clinton...
...easy to understand the forgiving impulse of the Governor's contemporaries, who themselves don't want to be permanently disqualified. And it's not hard to comprehend a national disinclination, post-Monica, to paw over the dark moments of yet another politician's life. The problem is that using cocaine, unlike having a bit of sport with the ladies, is illegal, and the country has decided to dole out harsh prison sentences to many people caught with the drug...
...difficult it is to fend off this media hunger for investigation into private lives," says Branegan. "[Former Clinton press secretary] Mike McCurry called it 'telling the truth slowly,' but I don?t think it?s done Bush any good, dragging it out like this." It?s the lesson every politician swears by ?- full, early disclosure is the only smart play anymore ?- until it happens to them. Bush?s Pandora?s box is mostly open, and he?s caught in the worst of worlds. He?s essentially admitted to it ?- "Over 20 years ago, I did some things... I made some...
...difficult it is to fend off this media hunger for investigation into private lives," says Branegan. "[Former Clinton press secretary] Mike McCurry called it 'telling the truth slowly,' but I don?t think it?s done Bush any good, dragging it out like this." It?s the lesson every politician swears by ? full, early disclosure is the only smart play anymore ? until it happens to them. Bush?s Pandora?s box is mostly open, and he?s caught in the worst of worlds. He?s essentially admitted to it ? "Over 20 years ago, I did some things... I made some...