Political and social observations from two aspiring hedgehogs who love the Isaiah Berlin essay.
I happen to speak fairly fluent Spanish, so I guess I don't need to be "embarrassed" by Senator Obama's standards. Ralph speaks Hebrew, so he's safe too.
posted by Lowell Brown at 1:58 PM
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"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." --Archilochus
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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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Unfortunately for me, I would probably fall in the category of one of those Americans who go to Europe and make us look bad over there. You see, the French that I learned, and was getting pretty good at speaking, suffered horribly when I lived in Hong Kong and learned Cantonese. I can only stumble through simple French sentences now and I generally tend to throw Chineese words in at random. Perhaps the only phrase I could say in France would be "Merci beaucoup!"
It's all ID politics, but Obama wants to play on the negative IDs of those who don't support him rather than his own identity. We are the great unwashed, the stupid Americans, the ones who turn to God and guns when things go wrong for us, the ones who need to be saved from ourselves, who can't be trusted to evaluate science for ourselves. Only such an one could oppose the Obama.
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