Hi Paul,

Politics is truely remarkable,in an awful way,as you point out. However bad
our choice of presidents is, I do have to say one thing about your
comments. I do not believe that Ronald Regan was elected just because he
had been in the movies. He wasn't a super star, it had been a long time
since he was famous in the movies, AND he had a previous political career
as governor of the state of California, which has the most electoral votes
of any state in the union.

Sean

At 08:01 AM 7/23/99 +1000, you wrote:
>Isn't politics remarkable?
>
>  I recall when I was still in school and thought government was about
>managing a country and looking after the people, providing services such
>as transport, medical care etc...
>
>  Our pollies, colourful though they be, have mostly been eccentric in
>proportion to our scale to the world.  We just sit and marvel at the
>sheer breathtaking scope of presidents elected on the basis of their
>career in the movies, their prowess as an adulterer (with the staff
>allocated them), or the vision of election to the senate on the basis of
>sympathy for the wife of such a former.
>
>  Isn't politics remarkable?
>--
>  Cheers,
>        Paul B.
>
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