>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/25/03 04:35PM >>> btw, it came up in David Brooks's op-ed piece in the Times today. Brooks is being groomed to replace Safire. My own rude comments are interspersed. OP-ED COLUMNIST Refuting the Cynics By DAVID BROOKS
The evidence also rebukes those gloomy liberals who for two decades have been predicting that the center-right governance of Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush would lead to disaster. (Interesting that Brook sees Clinton as a link in the chain of these scumbags.) <<<>>> brooks has expressed above number of times...an intellectual lightweight if there ever was one, he now and again makes useful - if not entirely/necessarily accurate - point such as when he suggests in his book 'bobos in paradise' that clintonoids represent merger of 60s (i'd suggest whatever remained of the worst of that decade's dead, stinking carcass) and 80s while bushites represent rejection of it... in any event, so much for ron inglehart's post-materialism thesis... michael hoover
