they have a point ...

[ramtops]

from a letter in today's Times

"Sir, Alcoholics, like other addicts, are dishonest, manipulative and scheming. Are these not the exact qualities required to be a successful party leader these days?"

[edit]and

"Sir, Leading the Liberal Democrats as a reforming alcoholic should be no problem. After all, we have a reformed one running the world’s only superpower."

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[quercus.livejournal.com]

having dispensed with the one thing that made it tolerable for him.

He hasn't so much "dispensed" with it, more substituted a simplistic Christianity for it, lifted straight from Redneck Sunday School.

I'm not sure which is worse 8-(