The Postmodern School of Fast Money, Easy Politics, and Banging the Tribal Drum

Candidate quality has suffered in today’s world of postmodern excess.

President Bush was appointed to very wonky positions - Ambassador to the United Nations, Chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), Chief of the U.S. Liason Office in the People’s Republic of China, and finally, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Wikimedia Commons.