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| 2008-05-08 |
| ...The next president will be a person just as enamored of what Gene Healy calls “situational constitutionalism” as the current one, and probably with an even more galaxy-sized sense of his (or her) own importance, and of his entitlement to the fruits of our labor to fund whatever world-saving project he has in mind. The fault is not in them, after all, it's in us. Look at who we’ve chosen! “A republic, if you can keep it.” What a pity we couldn’t. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 My main reason for posting this is because, for me, it provided a missing piece to understanding Dr Rice's general approach to Arab-Israeli conflict. to wit Hence also the transformation of a proper respect for the president’s office to a style of groveling adulation more appropriate to the court of an oriental despot. Healy offers a particularly stomach-turning example. Robert Draper, a journalist granted unique access to [George W.] Bush in 2006 and 2007 to write the president's biography, notes that in every cabinet meeting since White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten took over for Andy Card in 2006, Bolten has begun by looking at Bush and saying, "Thank you for the privilege of serving today." At no point, it seems, did Bush thank Bolten for his deference and then tell him to cut it out. Also, I liked turned first to the sixth of the book’s seven chapters: “Money: The Forbidden Issue in American Politics,” hoping one more time to grasp Dr. Paul’s program for our monetary system. It all seems quite logical as you proceed through the chapter, but if I had to stand up and explain it to you an hour later, I would not be able to. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-05-08 21:09 |
| #1 "Beginning in late spring of 2007 with two broad, varied rafts of capable candidates for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations, we have somehow ended up with Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain." -hahaha - so true. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2008-05-08 09:30 |