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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (85004)	2/4/2013 7:01:04 PM
From: Smiling Bob	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 119360

Our current leader's bold and brave action outdoes them all <Need I say this is sarcastic?> ------------------------------------- Obama Signs Bill Averting Government Default AP President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill raising the government's borrowing limit, averting a default and delaying the next clash over the nation's debt until later this year.

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (85004)	2/4/2013 7:02:29 PM
From: Tommaso	Respond to of 119360

That review is especially interesting because one of the books is a snarky righteously liberal treatment of Nixon. Or sounds to be, anyway. I was living in CA when Nixon made his ill-fated run for governor. The last couple of weeks before election day, scurrilous propaganda turned up on doorsteps all over the state. My teacher at Stanford shook his head and said, "Somehow, it always happens." Nixon denied having anything to do with it, of course. Lost anyway and made his "kick around" speech. Of course, after the Cuban missile crisis the previous month, none of this seemed very important just then. I was just glad not be fried meat.

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (85004)	2/4/2013 7:06:43 PM
From: No Mo Mo	3 Recommendations Respond to of 119360

You could argue that Nixon was only doing what he had to. There were a lot of people in the streets in those days, and the means to nullify/confuse their messages were not as sophisticated as they are now. Media wasn't as consolidated. You might also say the populace wasn't quite as blinded by bread and circuses, either. Nixon may have signed off on some progressive legislation, but he didn't like it. His approval ratings over SE Asia were abysmal so he gave into some major progressive causes like NEPA, Clean Water and Air, etc. This whole thing is excellent, but ~ 20:00 - 22:00 illustrate the point. [yt]Trfsn9PNpXg?t=19m50s[/yt] 20:00 karl popper 20:01 writes about it in 20:03 uh... the open society and its enemies 20:06 uh... 20:07 you know i actually proper has a great lining said that 20:10 that the question is not how do you get good people to rule that's the wrong 20:14 question 20:16 most people attracted to power according to proper art best mediocre 20:21 which is obama 20:22 or venal which is harper 20:29 the question 20:31 is how do you make the power elite frightened of you 20:35 that is the question 20:36 and you do that 20:38 by creating movements that hold fast 20:41 to moral imperative to invent a writes about this in this book but reason of 20:46 intellectuals 20:47 when he says that we all have a choice in life 20:50 between serving two sets of principles 20:54 either privilege and power 20:56 or justice and truth 20:58 but the more 21:00 those of us who are committed to justice and truth make concessions 21:05 to those who serve privilege and power 21:07 the more we diminish 21:09 the capacity protest disinterest 21:12 and that was and i think the failing 21:15 of the left 21:16 certainly in my country 21:17 is that we forgot 21:19 that is not part dropped a card is a great 21:21 moment 21:23 in kissinger is memoirs do not buy the book 21:26 where its nineteen seventy one 21:29 and there's a huge antiwar demonstration outside the white house 21:34 and nixon 21:36 who by the way was our last liberal president 21:38 because he was still scared of movements 21:41 both show the mine safety act the clean water hall came under next 21:47 so white house is ringed with empty buses 21:50 and nixon standing about any window with kissinger looking out 21:54 wringing his hands 21:56 going 21:57 henry 21:58 henry 22:00 they're gonna break through the barricades and get us 22:03 and that's just what we want people in power

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (85004)	2/5/2013 6:22:32 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 119360

I was in a conversation a day or two ago with a man (though he seemed to me more like a teenager) who is maybe 42 years old, who offered the opinion that David McCullough (aged 80 this year) could not have written his recent book "The Greater Journey" himself because he was too old. This person had not read the book. When I hear an opinion like that, I find myself so stultified ("turned into a fool") that I have nothing to say. If I had been warned in advance, I might have said: "What is amazing is not so much that he had the energy to write the book, as that you are do not seem to have the energy to read it." In fact, McCullough makes very limited use of editorial assistants or researchers. In that book, he hardly needed any. He just located and used all the letters and diaries that no one else had made use of. There have in fact been some critical, almost hostile reviews of the book. No one has dared to suggest that other people wrote McCullough's book for him other than this jerk that I had the misfortune to encounter.