Monday, October 5, 2015

The Speechwriter

The speechwriter: a brief education in politics / Barton Swaim 204 pgs.

Swaim's book is very fun to read for anyone who is interested in politics and probably anyone who likes to slow down and stare at accidents.  Swaim was a speechwriter for governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina.  Sanford was a complete jerk as a boss but was being looked at as a potential vice presidential candidate.  All of that before he went missing for 5 days while "hiking on the Appalachian trail" which was ACTUALLY a trip to visit his mistress in Argentina.  Staffers, who didn't ever like the governor suffered as they watched him became a joke and wondered if future job interviews would be granted only because the interviewer wanted a laugh.

After reading about the treatment of the staff, I think many of us will appreciate our jobs a little bit more.

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