Re: Re: Social Capital

[Jim Devine]

isn't this what Clinton called "triangulation," using the other major 
party's rhetoric and programs to justify one's own programs? And should the 
Dem/GOP overlap be surprising, given how similar the two parties are?

At 01:43 PM 2/13/01 -0500, you wrote:
>     Anyway, apparently the communitarian social capitalists
>have gotten to Bush.  Reportedly the speechwriters for his
>inaugural address consulted at length with Putnam.   That is
>why the speech was crawling with discussions of "civic
>responsibilitym," etc.  I gather that the head of the Faith Based
>Initiatives project, DeIiulio (check out the four vowels in a row
>in that name), is a member of Putnam's network and a card-
>carrying Democrat.

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