The most immaculate performances come from Jonathan Hyde who endows the vice-chancellor with a veneer of self-admiring omnicompetence, and from Nicholas Woodeson as the Ortonian cop. |
Hooker explicitly rejects the Puritan position, as he understands it, on the omnicompetence of Scripture. |
They reinforce images of managerial omnicompetence at the expense of more responsible views of leadership. |
It may be, in fact, the impossibility of omnicompetence that makes democracy the only viable choice for a system of governance. |
More important for the Republican Party's purposes, it isn't 2008 anymore, and conservatives don't actually need to explode the fantasy of Obama's eloquence and omnicompetence. |