I never thought the neo conservatives represented the conservative movement, but the conservatives let them hijack their party.
Listen Oblomov, most of those people you mention I never heard of, but here is what I do know. I grew up in the mean streets of Richmond California, worked my way through college playing poker, was in politics for 30 years including state director of several agencies and sold real estate for 15 years.
I have seen the good, the bad and the ugly. I know how to read someone who is dangerous and who is not, pretty well. As cormack Macarthy says in his book "The Road" I try to be one of the good guys. Victro Frankel a psychiatrist who survived Nazi concentration camps and wrote 27 books said in the end there are good peopel and bad people to a large extent.
Being overly simplistic I see the same thing. I judge peopel on their humanity. That is why I am for Obama. I beleive he is one of the good guys.
When you speak of Rush Limbaugh versus Bill Moyers, forget about their personal philosophies and look at the men.
Bill Moyers is clearly a very decent man who has commited himself to helping humaity and learning. Rush Limbaugh is not one of the good guys. He is a hater. He is a trickster who cares of no one but himself. That is such an easy thing to see.
With regard to George McGovern, I never understood why people did not like him. He would have been one of our greatest presidents. Bobby Kennedy called him the most decent man in the senate. 49 out of 50 states picked Nixon. What does that tell you about people!!
Here is a bit of his biography:
He volunteered for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and served as a B-24 Liberator bomber pilot in the Fifteenth Air Force, flying 35 missions over enemy territory from bases in North Africa and later Italy, often against heavy anti-aircraft artillery. McGovern was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for saving his crew by crash landing his damaged bomber on a small Mediterranean island. McGovern's wartime service is at the center of Stephen E. Ambrose's book The Wild Blue[2], which the author dedicated to McGovern's wife Eleanor.
On return from the war, McGovern earned a divinity degree from Garrett Theological Seminary[3]in Evanston near Chicago, and briefly tried his hand as a Methodist minister. Dissatisfied, he earned a Ph.D in history from Northwestern University in Evanston and became a professor at his alma mater, Dakota Wesleyan University.
As far as economists go. I like smart honest eclectic economists who can see the big picture and know how to get the job done. George soros is one of my heros, as mentioned, not because of his financial prowess, but because of his humanity.
Paul Krugman, Robert Rubin, lawrence summers, Marc Faber, and many of the top academic economists who understand Keynsian economics and the role of governement e.g. the new Deal.
We need a new New Deal! |
