In that spirit, China's new Confucius Peace Prize is especially revealing in its
ham-handedness.
Bush put it with the usual
ham-handedness. Long before I began writing this regular column for NCR, the editors asked me to do a follow-up to the 2004 elections.
The Democrats'
ham-handedness has largely diffused outstanding questions about Steele's finances.
Federal
ham-handedness was underscored in a 2000 exercise called TOPOFF (for "top officials involved"), featuring simultaneous simulated attacks--a nuclear "event" in Washington, D.C., a plague in Denver and a chemical weapons assault in Portsmouth, N.H.
"What's left is an example of
ham-handedness, even though the players may have felt they were doing absolutely the right thing."
One even appeared on CBS declaiming "FDA-GATE." Then FDA investigators threatened a 72-year-old doctor with prison for leaking info about the deadly drug to the press, bringing even election-weary politicians to the fore to denounce FDA
ham-handedness.
To their arrogance and
ham-handedness in handling this issue, the Scottish government have now added hypocrisy.
Even active party members were tempted to cast themselves as opponents of the regime, if not outright victims of persecution, for having sided with the church leadership in the culture wars of the 1930s, thereby foreclosing any serious consideration of their affinity with the Nazi project--a self-exculpatory impulse only reinforced, as Clemens Vollnhals and others have shown, by the
ham-handedness of American denazification policies, which typically excluded the possibility of shifts in attitude over time.
