Re: The Partisan Mind

I've read Cory Doctorow make this same complaint - President Obama ran on a
'hope and change' platform but hope is fading and he's not changing the
things he railed against on the campaign trail.

Johne Cook
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On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 4:50 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Honestly, my problem with the TSA stuff is that it feels like an extension
> of Bush tactics...I didn't vote for Obama to continue everything the other
> guys were doing.
>
>
>
> http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/1110/full_throttle_514b4601-3bfd-4372-bbb1-731f2904a2aa.html
>
> The naked body scanners were being installed under Bush...so, I and many
> liberals tend to see this as Obama continuing the very direction we wanted
> him to steer away from.
>
>
>  Thom
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>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter T. Chattaway <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]>
> To: DADL (off topic) <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tue, Nov 30, 2010 9:28 am
> Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] The Partisan Mind
>
>  Steve Sailer replies to Douthat's article:
>
> - - -
>
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> http://isteve.blogspot.com/2010/11/ross-douthat-writes-in-nyt-imagine-for.html
>
>
> [ snip ]
>
> Okay, but what happens when elites of both parties are in favor of a bad
> idea? To return to air security, President Bush campaigned in 2000 against
> ethnic profiling of Arabs and Muslims by airport security and Al Gore
> immediately said "Me, too!" Bush's Transportation Department had been
> running a big program in 2001 to crack down on profiling of passengers who
> look like Arab terrorists at the time that 19 Arab terrorists got on their
> flights on 9/11. (See my 9/11/2001 article for UPI, "Bush had called for
> laxer airport security.") Did the Democrats rush to denounce Bush for making
> it easier for Mohammed Atta to board? Did Republicans turn on Bush?
>
> No, what happens is largely that the issue disappears down the old memory
> hole.
>
> Similarly, how about Bush's push for more zero down payment mortgages in
> the name of fighting racist redlining?
>
> I've largely devoted my career to raising unwelcome questions about
> bipartisan elite consensuses. It's not a wise career choice.
>
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