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Virtue or job performance? Public standards
" By PATRICIA ZAPOR
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS)
Poll after poll shows the
American public is more
pleased with the way things are
going in the country than they
are worried by sex-scandal
accusations against their presi-
dent.
That apparently came as a
surprise to many political com-
mentators.
But the director of the Center
for Ethics at Loyola University in
Chicago thinks it demonstrates
that the public has a two-pronged
sense of what matters to the coun-
try -- while people want their
president to represent national
virtue, the possibility that he
doesn't meet that standard means
far less than whether he meets
other standards.
said recent polls show that pub-
lic expectations of the president
as national leader don't neces-
sarily have much to do with
whether he represents an
admirable national image of
morality.
"The country recognizes there
are two parts to the job," Ozar
said. "They want a person who is
able to do the policy, the admin-
istrative job, right. But they also
want an admirable person."
He contrasted U.S. expecta-
tions of the president to the
standard in countries with a
parliamentary form of govern-
ment. A prime minister's job is
almost entirely about being a
good administrator, Ozar said.
But the U.S. presidency carries
the additional burden of-repre-
senting "national qualities."
"The office as we understand
it in this society has a special
Dave Ozar, who also teaches obligation of prudence."
ethics,at the Jesuit university, In some ways, Americans
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expect their president to repre-
sent a kind of exemplar of
behavior, he said. Recent events
show, however, that this stan-
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people's image of him, accord-
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"There are no doubt some
people who say 'he's a slime-
ball, but he's a good adminis-
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In comparison, Ozar noted
that former President Jimmy
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admired as a moral and ethical
man, but he was considered to
be fairly inept at the job of
administrator-in-chief. Carter
was soundly trounced by
Ronald Reagan in his 1980 re-
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