On 13 Jun 2010 16:42:01 GMT, Eregon
wrote:

"William Wixon" wrote in news:Ct7Rn.30415$yx.16404
:

naval officers, first one comes to mind is jimmy carter, a skilled
woodworker.

He should have stayed with woodworking and kept out of politics where he
re-defined "inept".
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You don't get to be Navy nuclear command qualified by being
a no-load dick weed.

In hindsight, Carter's major problem was that he is a
competent and honorable man, used to dealing with competent
and honorable men. Thus he was at a severe disadvantage
dealing with the Washington establishment and their
symbiotic corporations, where deceit, corruption and
deception are a way of life and an art form. He compounded
this handicap by largely surrounding himself with competent
and honorable people rather than thugs, political
operatives, and "spin-meisters."


-- Unka George (George McDuffee)
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The past is a foreign country;
they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author.
The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).