[lbo-talk] Winning the 'honesty' vote ...

[Shane Mage]

Jordan wrote:
>
>Perhaps more astonishing than the polling on the murky issue of morality
>(why aren't poverty and unjust war considered immoral?) are the figures
>reported[*] in the New York Times: "Voters who cited honesty as the most
>important quality in a candidate broke 2 to 1 in Mr. Bush's favor..."
>The most mendacious Administration in American history won the honesty
>vote?
>

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing.
If you can fake that, you've got it made."
--Marx (Groucho, that is)

"It doesn't matter who votes.  What matters is who counts the votes."
--Djugashvili