One who has to invent lies, coverups, misleading statements, etc., has to bail out sooner rather than later to keep his sanity! Common sense tells one that if you are constantly steeped in bullshit, you will eventually have that same smell yourself.

No offence to Mr. Gerson, but in keeping with my well-established habit of riding utopian hobby horses, I would like to suggest that it be made MANDATORY that presidents and all elected officials WRITE THEIR OWN SPEECHES… EVERY WORD. Oh, I’ll allow research assistants to do the heavy slogging of fact-finding and lit reviews, etc. I’ll even allow “executive summaries” of info to be provided to these elected officials, but the speech itself must come from their own minds.

I didn’t elect a mouthpiece… I want to hear what my elected officials have to offer. If they can’t do this competently, then they cannot communicate effectively… WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY DOING IN THE POSITION IN THE FIRST PLACE?

I also want my elected officials to dress themselves and groom themselves. I’d like them REAL, please, not some “production” presented by “handlers.”

And before someone tells me that elected officials are too busy to look after such details, I say BULLSHIT. Too busy doing what? Shaking hands? Attending cocktail parties? Schmoozing? Freeloading? Grandstanding?