You'd think the best and the brightest would be beyond Mr. Obama's crude populist pitch. You of course would be wrong. |
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scream-of-consciousness; "If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what the hell."
You'd think the best and the brightest would be beyond Mr. Obama's crude populist pitch. You of course would be wrong. |
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"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " |
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It has been at least twenty-five years since I read Halberstam's classic, and one of the seminal works on our Vietnam experience, but I'm sure that the title was entirely tongue-in-cheek.
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That whole "Best and Brightest" thing doesn't take idiot savants into account, either.
Anecdotally: When I was leaving Swaziland, I traded a Penthouse I'd picked up in Berlin for "Best and the Brightest". Read it during the hell that was my week in Zambia. Halberstam knew his beans, and that's for sure. Recommended.
You seem to have some silly notion that a Prog's words actually mean something ... to them.