Lester B. PearsonPolitics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
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The ability to use blunt objects with skill is a very important skill for a politician to master. Blunt objects can be anything from the usual-the pen and the phone to the less obvious-the adoption of children, the construction of a bomb shelter, or even the making of a pie. The point of all this is that these objects are blunt and do not inspire fear, which is what politicians need. The political style of using blunt objects and blunt words shows that they will not be afraid to speak their mind and say what they think.
However, there is more to politics than just speaking out. It includes skill in spinning out falsehoods and then arriving at truths that everybody believes, but nobody knows how they got there.
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