30 January 2010

David Brooks' Advice to Obama

David Brooks a critical realist? - I think CRists are by nature "permanent outsiders":

"You need to detach yourself from Washington’s ping-pong match of ideological overreach — as each party interprets victory as a mandate to grab everything.

You made a good start in the State of the Union address, I would tell him. In that speech, you began to reclaim the mantle of the permanent outsider."

1 comment:

DLW said...

critical realists might come to power by historical fluke, but they are not apt for staying in power without losing their "edge"...

dlw

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