Captain Ed has posted a story of the unimpressive mind in charge of HUD, and how he seems to have said he denied a contractor a job because of a political statement.
First, if the story HUD Secretary Alonzo Jackson tells, he's an idiot for doing what he says he did, and a bigger idiot for having told people about it. Refusing a supremely qualified man a job because he says he doesn't like the prez.. well, that's lame and destructive in the long haul. That should disqualify him from holding his job any longer.
But as some of the Cap'n's commenters point out, the prospective employee used the term, "your president" in saying he didn't like Bush. That makes him an idiot, as well. The POTUS is not just the president of the Republican Party. He's the President of the UNITED STATES. That means all of us. The sooner the goofballs who hate him get their act together and figure out this one simple fact, the better. The POTUS is our servant. If we do our jobs right, we direct him to do what needs to be done for all of us, not what will benefit one single party.
There is also the idea that, if the contractor had any sense, he would have left his own partisanship out of the conversation, and/or promised to do his job to the best of his abilities regardless of his opinion of the current administration, and -- who knows? -- Jackson might have found his honesty respectable enough to hire him on the spot.
So, what we have here is a failure, on two sides, to think. Nothing new in that, but it is still irksome.
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