Political and social observations from two aspiring hedgehogs who love the Isaiah Berlin essay.
Here it is. A few questions arise: Is Giuliani saying these kinds of things? Can he even do so credibly? What about Fred Thompson?
posted by Lowell Brown at 8:09 AM
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
--John Adams, 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770.
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Doesn't the irony strike anyone that Mitt Romney is going on TELEVISION, and paying millions of dollars to TELEVISION networks, to talk about how bad TELEVISION is?
Why on earth would Giuliani want to run an ad like this? Are we electing a Nanny-in-Chief, or Censor-in-Chief? Most of us thought we were electing a Commander-in-Chief.
If Romney wants to run on a platform of transforming America into a Mormon-friendly cultural "ocean", that'll be the end of his campaign!
A US President does things like, you know, fights wars; prods Congress to pass and then signs or vetos laws, hopefully signing only those laws that happen to be constitutionally-allowable and good public policy; appoints judges who (hopefully) respect the Constitution; proposes budgets and then carries them out in the administrative branch of government; etc. etc.
The President of the USA doesn't mandate "family home evening"; or monitor the media for bad words and images so that parents don't have to; and/or issue cultural dictates or religious fatwas.
We're not electing a new God or High Priest.
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