Twitter-like social-networking services have played a huge role in exposing the government's cack-handed response.
Indeed, some of the greatest with these skills have been notoriously cack-handed with matters technical.
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Newtonmore club secretary Ian Gibson also accused the association of "cack-handed intransigence" and of misjudging the mood of the clubs.
In lambasting the government's cack-handedness, the press has also helped foster the army's image as the only competent official provider of relief work.
At least Pakistan has handled its default more adroitly than Ecuador, which, though a tiny economy, managed to annoy everyone with its cack-handed approach.
The problem this time was not the unions, who readily agreed to a new deal, but the cack-handed government management under which Australia's rail network had fallen into decline.
Many conservative activists would like to pin the blame on Mr Bush alone either because he pursued foolish policies (the paleo-conservative version) or because he pursued sensible policies in a cack-handed manner (the neoconservative version).
In truth, Mr Brown helped to bring down the wrath of the press on his own head: the vehemence of political journalism in recent years has been fuelled by the cack-handedness of politicians, and in some cases their greed and depravity.
In March 2004, luck helped to bring the leader of Spain's Socialists to power: he was trailing in the polls until a cack-handed attempt by the ruling centre-right People's Party to blame the Madrid train bombings three days before the election on Basque separatists.
The Spanish government delayed its budget for 2012 because of an election in Andalusia, created suspicions about the accuracy of its statistics, was cack-handed in its negotiation with the EU over a revised deficit target and messed up a bond sale just before Easter.
He described the way the disciplinary procedure had been handled as "cack-handed" and "chaotic", saying the panel felt the dismissals were as a result of issues raised by Mr Routledge regarding the conduct of a member of staff who was a good friend of the Lockes.
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And sailing close to the mushroom clouds, evacuating islanders who'd felt the ash rain down from a colonial power half a world away, was again a sure-fire way to win in the court of public opinion - even if the French government had not guaranteed itself a defeat by its cack-handed resort to force in Auckland.
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