Homeland Heavyweight
From Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's statement on President Bush’s nomination of George Foresman to be undersecretary for preparedness:
Mr. Foresman is a highly respected, veteran emergency management professional with more than twenty years of emergency preparedness experience at various levels of government. Most recently, he served as an Assistant to the Governor of Virginia for Commonwealth Preparedness and was responsible for the Commonwealth's emergency and disaster preparedness activities, including coordination with the private sector.
He might as well have added: "He has absolutely no Arabian horse experience whatsoever."
Curious, though that Chertoff's list of the nominee's accomplishments left out winning the heavyweight boxing title twice (and more than 20 years apart), or the invention of that terrific indoor grill. Oh, "Foresman." Never mind.
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