Comments on: Nepotism is okay as long as you keep it in the family

By: Evil Philanthropist

Evil Philanthropist — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:05:10 +0000

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Anonymous — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

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By: terrye

terrye — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Geosh:

So far as I know Rove has not been charged with anything yet. This is politics... scams and trumped up charges.

And as far as Bush being sharp, well he has not made his brother Jeb Attorney General has he? Just because the chattering classes are chattering does not make Bush stupid.

I think people have become so hyper critical that a lot of good people want nothing to do with the system. After all they might have a past or a family they are not proud of and we all know what that will turn into.

It seems that character assasination is more important to people than character.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

To Ruth H:

Your comment ("Who knows how much talent is out here in the hinderlands, music, art, literary, scientific, etc. but it has not risen to the fore because they do not have a boost up by a friend or relative") reminded me of the following lines from Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard":

Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

By: Ruth H

Ruth H — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

The old saying “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know,” is not without merit. The truth is that IS the way of the world, but once you get the foot in the door you must be able to do the job. Who knows how much talent is out here in the hinderlands, music, art, literary, scientific, etc. but it has not risen to the fore because they do not have a boost up by a friend or relative.

By: Goesh

Goesh — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

-sure seems like splitting fine hairs on a frog to me, with each but adding some fuel to the fires of the vicious, potentially bloody, smoldering contempt many Americans hold for the political system in general. Aside from that, Bush can see no wrong in Harriet or his choice of her. She damn sure will need to display some forceful and dazzling rhetoric
for the Senators, who like many pundits, seem to have their minds already set in stone. Some are insisting Bush should withdraw her nomination. To what end? What with Rove in trouble and Tom Delay being charged, the GOP’s man is going to up and say he was wrong and chose a ‘bad’ person? Janice Brown, a Black, female former CA Supreme Court Justice currently on a Federal bench was the most logical choice. George Bush is far, far from being the sharpest pencil in the bin. I just wonder who had his ear when Harriet was put forth.

By: JSU

JSU — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Bellow the lesser actually wrote an entire book defending nepotism, which didn't get the best reviews.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

I read the first word, meretricious, and didn’t recognize it. But I do recognize meritocracy and its lay-abouts.

By: dicentra

dicentra — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

In Latin American countries, "personalismo" is the rule, not the exception. You don't get anywhere in business or politics without knowing someone.

I would be surprised if that weren't the case in Africa and Asia, as well. That we resort to meritocratic ideals and practices at all is the truly remarkable thing.

By: Holmes

Holmes — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

I think it’s just the idea that somehow a Democracy should also be based on meritocracy (or meretriciousness ). It’s the idea. The fact that it happens doesn’t mean that should be the goal. Of course, looking at our politicians, I’m not sure a person’s merit has anything to do with politics.