Monday, October 18, 2010

But Tecs of course wants the rabble to keep quiet

Great piece, all the way to the last paragraph, which is a sharp knife.
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Tecumseh said...

It was the fault of George Bush, the fault of bad luck, the fault of the universe. Fault had to be outsourced, to external and sinister forces.

I blame Herr Mister Rot.

10/18/2010 7:34 AM
Tecumseh said...

“His achievements are historic,” Time’s Joe Klein informs us, “but he hasn’t wrapped them up in an ideological bumper sticker—or provided some neat way for the public to understand it, or pretended to be a yeoman simpleton, noshing on pork rinds [or] clearing brush.”

Is JK talking about Herr Rot, barfing kaiserfleisch in the morning?

10/18/2010 7:48 AM
Mr roT said...

“Obama’s gamble is that if you look after the doing of the presidency, the selling of the presidency will look after itself,” or so Todd Purdum tells us. “The short-term price may come in stalled poll numbers, electoral setbacks, and endless contradictory advice [but] the payoff .  .  . lies out on some future horizon” that only he sees.

It better be out there, for the alternative is much too depressing. He’s your ideal, and if he fails, it means that the things that you value—the smoothness, the snark, the verbal facility, the elevation of talk as against thought and action, the veneer of worldliness; the right schools, the right clothes, the right frame of reference; the nuance; the sophistication—that these things are, in the real world, not all that important.

And then, of course, neither are you.

10/18/2010 9:00 AM
Tecumseh said...

Ouchhh! That must hurt. Then again, if you been to Harvard once, you may be impervious for life to such trifles. ¿Quien sabe?

10/18/2010 11:53 AM
Tecumseh said...

“It was a stately thing and a mature discussion.” “He’s an Oxford don,” broke in Chris Matthews, “elegantly presenting himself, elegantly expressing himself on a very high level.”

OIs this an FCP moment, or what?

10/18/2010 1:56 PM

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