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To: JohnM who wrote (178767)1/7/2012 11:13:38 AM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 541761
 
Kinsley NAILS it - bravo!

"It seems to me that a Democratic president who gets us health care reform and tough new financial protection for consumers, who guides the economy through its roughest period in 80 years with moderate success (who could do better?), who ends our long war in Iraq and avenges the worst insult to our sovereignty since Pearl Harbor (as his Republican predecessor manifestly failed to do, despite a lot of noise and promises); a president who faced an opposition of really spectacular intransigence and downright meanness; a president who has the self-knowledge and wisdom about Washington to write the passage quoted above, and the courage to publish it: that president deserves a bit more credit from the left than Frank is willing to give him."



To: JohnM who wrote (178767)1/7/2012 1:34:44 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541761
 
Great post. I have followed Michael Kinsley for many years and, IMO, there is simply no better thinker in America. And a very honest and decent man.

A review of Tom Franks new book.
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January 6, 2012
The Rise of the American Oligarchy
By MICHAEL KINSLEY